The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1820-11-28
10 The Honorabfe Seauie and me

Honorable H0nse q Representatives. of The
STATE Of Mains, IN Legislature assembled
Nay FERN. IN The year u or Lord 1890.
1,Hf. suhfcsiber., inhsbitsufs Of Ia. scn,h ven
part OF Norih- Yarmouth, ak leave ssfpeciful-
" 10 repstfsot .--'tba the saiS town Of North
Yarmouth eomprlrs an exsenive territory. TO the
amount Of .sht mile. square, or theresbort that
The Islands IN the Bay .cuii.tufe q part of aid
townfhs. and in eonie9psnce sherenf, abe town
meetings are he d, the town cttices kept ADD the
town bufiness done =, North Ys,mnu.a Corner.
90 called, thereby sutjetting youf pe,iliorer. 20
the neetfi,y If ar effective rave; for,e Of her,
al leaf dlliancs of uiue miles to attcsd toxvn
mseiIcg ard perform he ordinary du,ie. of a cis-
xen- You raemo'isl,as fu' her repreisnf rhe su
6nsss OF the csizees ins he south wei Sec
tioI Of tb- 'ovn naufAy disconnected from
North Yarmouth Corner and Falls, in a. much A
,hofe eho eng.gee 10 2sime and lumber
ing puriuits proiecu'e and Concentrate their tu,i-
ne.s 10, AID from Broad Cove. ia aid North Var
mouth. Yeur honoraoie bodies will rssdiiy per-
eslve he inconvenience accompanying yeur ce-
',t,onefs in the prosecution of Town buhre,s in 50
an es enive u ac # territory, and may be afTurcd
thai by juii onpu alton tina, a. every general
or fun town, meeting in said town, adiflsnce of
about nine hundred milesi is travelled lpsincip,llv
ny yenr petitioners ever sLd above wLat would
place. Your pet,tioners, therefore cray that the
.aid town OF Nsnh Yarmouth may b. divided :
aud hat The following dticrited /. act ,hesesi nav
be incorporated mo a rev owu follows name
" Beginning on the shore, or cn the tivi-
dog me between the fans Of Aeaeudss Lurr
and Reuben Lering; thence ruso,ng norsh.wef-
cry 20 The eanery corner Of the ore hundred and
tive acre los Numbered l. on The weif fiae of
Hya 5 River, ihs,ee north tseots dr degrees
welt, o he ooth corner Of ios numbered ::
tbence touth sixty four degrees ven on the a,y;.
dug Inc between he lot numbered snd TO
he fguih ,orier # a.d gned nv joieph Barlow.
N lot 70 Tot TO, as "A ne orr ia41 numbered 8;
hence no.,h wen, sin degrees wen serols fsid
ios, tkence isush siIty four degrees wtn hetvecn
ot, Numbered snd to the dividing lie between
the bred snd one burored and twenty acre
divhon, vel flee Of Royal River thence north
twenty IA degree weii on laid line 10 the fouth.
eaiteglY hde line OF he two huodrc. and ,ishy
acre iquadrsn, numbered !, +; thence ,ou,h hfty-
four degrees wen % The esisi ctrIet % the eur
hundrsd aud fifty acre squad on numbered .. 80
called, thence north-weh 20 Gray inc hence CO
Gray line south welt 60 he corner az aid N,rth-
Yarmouth hence sou,b ..ll on Falmouth Inc -
the sea ehofe; thence 90 raid eouTse uus.l iiu<
arawn ffom the hfn mentioned hound-. sau.i,
Twelve degree eats shs inter.sct the same reiu-
dug the Flats, together with Ciapboasd and Ia h
e Islands.
Your Memorial further reprefent that the
division As prayed for, wen create 20 ineonvea-
renee reipeet, he ROAD, in faid town; neither
sill zny iehso dat q, as nov 6sed, be Gu, or
divided by laid line, nor as we conceive. uoud
any Inconvenience arifs 10 the ramaiuio. paft Of
laid town; Dor its mseFsfls ~ any n,oisr MAZE
rAly Affected. Ysur petitioners, willing 10 flare
in ,he puAic bsnsn' are sfo az ,.r.usl 10 .urh
cafes equally wiiheg to flare 10 the cub &c bur.
asus. 10 promote The interest," Of the new iowa,
without ds'se 20, o. probability CT irjurins The
old, is The desire OF the iubicrltefs. Ire infiee
OF our psaye, j. our srgumsnt, aud The aid oftbe
government cur hope To your Honots. asia 5u.
~ bound, viii ever pray ysnr Petitioners
WILLIAM sfunBS, and 1873 Others.