Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1919 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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Petition of Claude Spencer et al for Road improvement In Milroy Township, Jaeper County, Indiana. Cause No. 3222. This is to certify that the board of commiasioners of Jasper county, Indiana, ihas decided that no damages lhave been applied for and that the report and profile in the matter of the petition for road Improvement in Milroy township in Jasper county, Indiana, by Claude Spencer et al, is in due form and sufficient in law, and made an order requiring the undersigmed auditor to give notice by publication for three consecutive weeks in a weekly newspaper of general circulation, printed and published in Jasper county, Indiana, that on September 20th, 1919. the polls would be opened at the several voting places In Milroy township for the purpose of taking the votes of the legal voters of said ! township whether the highway referred I to in said report should be laid out, established, graded, dirained and paved. I The said report, excepting plats, ' specifications, profile and the engineer’s explanation thereof, reads as follows: State of Indiana, county of Jasper, ss: •In commissioners’ court, July term, 1919. In the matter of the petition of

Claude Spencer et al for Improvement of highway in Milroy township. Cause No. 3222. We, the undersigned engineer and viewers In the above entitled cause, respectfully report to the board of commissioners of Jasper county, Indiana, that In compliance with the order of said board heretofore entered at the regular May term, 1919, a certified copy of which order Is attached here:to and made a part hereof by reference, we met at the office of the county auditor on May 14, 1919, and duly qualified by subscribing an oath of office; that we afterward proceeded to view the proposed Improvement which is set out in the petition and is described as follows, to-wlt: Commencing in the public highway at the southeast corn of of section slx'teen (16) In township twenty-eight (28) north, range five (5) west in Jasper county, Indiana, and running thence west to the southwest corner of section eighteen (18) in said township and range, a distance of thirteen thousand two hundred feet (13,200). i Wle further report that: I Ist that the proposed Improvement shall not Involve the laying out and establishing of any new 'highway. I 2nd that 4t will be of a public utility 'to grade, drain and pave the highway named in the petition and hereinafter more especially described. I 3rd that the width of said highway .of forty feet of which twenty-two feet In the center thereof is to be graded and stone to the widith of nine feet .laid thereon. 4th that said highway mentioned ■in 'said petition and more particularly described In the plans and specifications hereinafter appearing shall be graded las aforesaid, proper drain provided, and the Improvement with culverts and other waterways, as an entirety and each part thereof and anything that in any way pertains to the same, shall be constructed In accordance with the plans and specifications and terms hereiinafter set forth under the title, "Plans and Specifications,” and a profile herewith marked exhibit “A” as hereby referred to its made a pant of itjhis report. 6th that the said improvement herein described and found by us to be a public utility is by us estimated to cost $16,742.61. Clearing and Grabbing. Clearing: The roadbed must be cleared to the width of twenty feet on each side of the center line. Ail trees, brush and other vegetable matter, within the space designated, to be cut down, and the same, together with all logs and brushwood already down, shall be burned or removed from the ground, so as not to Injure the adjoining lands or to obstruct the line fences along the boundaries of the said right-of-way. All trees, brush and stumps shall be cut to the ground.