Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1801-03-30

TO THE HON. SENATE, AND HOUSE oy,Rt7EE,
SkRTArlvES OF THE COMniDNWEALTH OF Mas
SAcHUsETTs, ~ GENERAL COURT AsSEnBLED.
NM Elhc Ublcrbers petitioners inhabitants Ct the
w towns OF Falmouth and Wlndham, hunbly
thew That your petitioners have been ear ex-
penir IN building dams, and erecting mills II the low
falls Peinmlcot river 70 called, Conqjn S4cra
Kappa, Horftbeef aud the Great Falls, q called, at
which there annually awed f ON one hundred and
thirty to hundred and City hundred thoufend feet
Of boards which lhpptd foreign markets Except
thole that fold At the mills for ready money for
the ue u the adjacent country) And from the file
OF this umseT, there are, moderate calculation,
one hundred thouand dollars brought into hcle towns
Thcle mills employ from one hundred and eighty TO
two hundred men for eight months in year. The
people hatiive Prelumcot river and the large Sc
ago and long ponds for ninety hundted miles,
find profitable employment for the winter months in
haling their Gurpus of timber into thefe ponds and
river for the ute OF thee mills which would be other
wife deiIoyed in clearing their land for cultivation
Your petitioners do remember OF having een any
filth called 1had aewiyes above Preiumlcot lower
falls ever before thefe dams were built That fome of
your petitioners have etn the fin called falmon pats
over thele dams, although there has been fuice way
open the bottom Of the dam, bur there has never
been bur few l4lmon teen in Preipmttot river, and
but very few caught 10 il your petitioners remem
Der Some fay it becaule there is iuch van quantity
OF logs drove JOwn this river at time when the fam-
on pats up the ealern rivers. If thefe dams
| obntuction to the falmon going up they would be
found in great plenty below the lower dam, whereas
there has been but very few lecn. BY refe6ting on
the preceding tatement your petitioners feel al ar
furance that your honors will fee the propretY and
expediency of giving every aid to works Of fuch mag
nitude and importance the mills Prelumfco river,
which afford luch vaf quantity Of lumber for the in
habitans ule and for expectation foreign nations
The Object is very great compared with the advAn
rages that arile from the ma number OF 6h that 60
up Prefumlcot river. Your petitioners have feen an
act, psed March the hrf in the year Of Lord one
thouand feven hundred and ninety eight entitled An
act for the preiervation Of hh called faImon (ad and
aewives, in the rivers dreams and waters withn the
counties Of Lincoln and Cumberland and for repeal
ing all laws made for tina; rurpoie 70 far respects
their operation in laid counties AS committees may
not be United in the iuicien 1uicewavs whereby
your petitioners will be- la danger Of being Narrated
and embroed IN fuits At law. which 10 your peution-
who have been he habit Of peace, void Of the
fpirit of litigation, will be extremely diagreeabe and
viii have tendency deftroy that iprit Of indul-
try 70 necedary and advantageous community.
Wherefore your petitioners pray that your honors
would take their uation uRdcr ferrous confederation
aud repeal laid act 70 far as il repe6ts its operation on
Preiumfcot river. And as in duty bound your petit
ticnGrs will ever pray.
ANDREW HALL, and 81 others.