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Page 372 | Dec 26, 1867

Town Records

Town Records of DeKalb Ill page 372, 1867

J. B. Colton

Dwelling houses, subscribed and sworn to before me this 31st day of December A.D. 1867, E. A. Porter, Town Clerk

DeKalb County, State of Illinois

To E. A. Porter, town clerk of the town of DeKalb the county of DeKalb

The undersigned Calvin S. Colton of the town aforesaid feeling himself assigned by an order made by the commissioners of highways of said town, on the 7th day of December A.D. 1867 in laying out altering or relocating a highway in said town and also in discontinuing a portion of a certain highway in said town and also in the assessment of damages sustained by our petitioner in laying said highway through his premises does hereby appeal to and submit the matters in controversy to the decision of three supervisor of the county of DeKalb aforesaid to be selected by you agreeably to the statutes in which cases which order of said commissioners was filed in the town clerk’s office of said town on the 7th day of December A.D. 1867 a copy of which is hereto annexed in and by which the said roads in question and the proceedings and determination of said commissioners will more fully approve.  The grounds upon which this appeal is made are 1st said new road so laid out is entirely unnecessary and uncalled for by the public. 2nd the benefit to the public is any is entirely disproportionate to the damage to your petitioners and therefore ought not to have been laid out altering or relocated. 3rd the damages assessed to your petitioner are altogether too low and disproportionate to the damages sustained by him in the laying out altering or relocating said new road or altering of the old one and this appeal is brought in relation to both the damages assessed by the Commissioners of highways and to the laying out and altering of said road and to reverse entirely the determination of said commissioners or for an assessment and increase of your petitioners damages provided the determination of said commissioners is not entirely reversed.  The undersigned therefore asks that you as town clerk of said town will proceed according to laws and select three supervisor to hear and determine said appeal.

Calvin S. Colton

Dated this 26th day of December A.D. 1867

The above is a correct copy of the original

E. A. Porter, Town Clerk