Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1801-03-23

TO THE HON. SENATE, AND HOUSE OF RtPRF.
SENTATIvEs OF THE COMM0NWEALTH OF Mas
SAcHUsETTS, ~ GENERAL COURT ASSEMBLED.
NkfEihe tubicT5ers, petitioners. inhabitants of the
w Gowns OF Falmouth and Windham, humbv
thew That your petitioners have been at great ex.
perir in building dams, and erecting mills at The low.
or fails on Preumycot river 70 called, Congin, Sacca-
Kappa, Horiebeet and the Great Falls ~ called AZ
which there are annually fawed from one hundr ed and
thirty TO hundred and fifty hundred thouland feet
Of boards which lhPped to foreign markes(cxceDt
thole that are fold az the mills for ready money or for
the ue Of me adj accent country And from the file
OF this lum"er, there are, moderate calculation
one hundred thouiand dollars brought into :hfe towns
lhoie mills employ from one hundred and eighty to
TWO hundred men tor eight months in a year The
people that live or Preumlcot river and the large Sc
bago and lovg ponds for niaety an hundred miles
End ProhtAhe employment fsr the winter months in
h@ing their iurplus of timber into thelc ponds and
river for the ule of ho(e mills which would be other
MIC deihoyed IN clearing their land for cultivation
Your petitioners do not remember Of having lten any
hih called hod Or alewiees above Preiumicot lower
taIIa ever before thce dams were bu t. That fcme or
your petitioners have ieen the ilh called famon pats
over hclc dams, although there has been luice way
open at the bottom Of the dam, but there has never
been hut few taimon iecn in Prefamitot river ana
but very few cSlPht in 1t as YOUR Deftiers re,en,
Der Some Fay Il IS becau(e there Is luch van ouanitv
OF logs drove Gown this az a time when the f.im
on pas up the Caltern rivers. IL thtic dams were at
obltruchon TO the falmon going Up they would Be
found IN great plenty below the lower dam, whereas
there has been bur very few fccn By rejecting On
me preceding itAement, your petitioners feel an az.
iuranoe that you honors will fee the proprety and
exPedIency OF giving every aid works of fuch mag
mude and m PoTtance the mills on PrcumCcot river
which afford uch watt Quantity Of lumber for the IN
haouans uic, and for expectation to foreign nations
The object IS very great compared with the advan
tsSes that arie from the imaIl number Of fin that %
up Preiumicot river Your petitioners have leen an
act pafied March the fr the year Of our Lord one
thouiand ieven hundred and ninety eight cntiteda An
act for the Pretervation Of fin called fAmon lad and
aewivcs in The rivers, dreams and waters within the
counties Of Lincoln and Cumberland and for repeal
ing III laws made Tor THAI purpcfe 10 far as refpes
their operation in fad counties" AS committees NAV
net be united VI the term iuicent hucewavs whereby
your Petouers vii! be in danger OF being harrane
and embr0ed in iuts law, which to your 5etto n
eTs who have been he habit Of peace void Of the
prit of litigation, will be extremely diiaereeahe and
viii have tendency to defroy that prit of induC
Try 70 necefary and advantageous &c a community.
Wherefore your petitioners pray that your honor.
would take their fuaIon under ferrous confederation
and repeal fad act 70 far repeGs lis operation on
prtiumico river And a. in duty bound your peti.
u1Esrs Will ever pray
ANDREW HALL, and 81 others.