Marteeny v. Louth

On the 21st day of March, 1914, there was filed with the town clerk of the Town of Mt. Vernon, Jefferson county, Illinois, a petition signed by the commissioners of highways of said town in their official capacity, and also by 172 freeholders of said town, requesting that the town clerk, when giving’ notice of time and place of holding the annual-town meeting for the year 1914, also give notice “that a vote would be taken on the proposition for borrowing $40,000 to construct gravel, rock, macadam, concrete or other hard roads, in said town, to the extent, in the places and for the distances,…