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Town Records of DeKalb Ill page 319, 1865

have decided not to discontinue the road therein described.

Witness our hands this 7th day of October 1865

Revised by Supervisors

Commissioner of Highways

E. B. Gilbert

William Fuller

Geo Clark

The above petition and also of the Commissioners was filed in the office of the town clerk of the town of DeKalb the 7th day of October 1865.

E. A. Porter, Town Clerk

E. A. Porter Town of DeKalb State of Illinois

The undersigned John Hatch and C. M. Simmons of the town aforesaid feeling themselves aggrieved by an order made by the commissioners of highways of said town on the 7th day of October A.D. 1865 in refusing to discontinue a certain highway in said town do hereby appeal to and submit the matter in controversy to the decision of three Supervisors of the county of DeKalb aforesaid to be selected by you agreeably to the statutes in such cases which order of said commissioners was filed on the 7th day of October A.D. 1865 in the town clerk’s office of said town a copy of which is hereto attached in and by which the road in question and the proceedings and determination of said commissioners will more fully appeal.

The grounds upon which this appeal is made are that the road in question is not required by the public for public travel.  That the expense in making a passable road over the route in question would be an extravagant expenditure of money and labor without benefiting the public.

That the damages