The Portland daily press., 1873-05-19
STATE OF MAINE.
CUMBERLAND, S.:

To thc Honorable the County Commits.
sioners for the County of Cumberland:
DESPECTFULLY represents the Roston s. Maine
IL Railroad, corporation duly existing by law,
Where's, said Corporation was empowered by laws
s1nor thereof February nth, 1911 to extend, locate
and construct its railroad from some convenient
point on Its then road in the towns Of Be wick or
South Berwick thence through intervening towns
and cities to some convenient point in the city OF
Portland; and, whereas, said corporation has made
the survey required by said act and the said railroad
ton thereof in said act and within the time required
by said act and. whereas the locations thereof with
In the city Of Portland have been filed with the Coun
ty Commissioners for said County Of Cumberland,
and have been by said Commissioners approved and
ordered to be recorded and have been duly recorded
1872; the second location February 7th, A. D. 1872
the third location February l4th A D. 1872 and the
appears more fully by the certified copies of the
hereto annexed and made part of this petition.
locations were owners Of or had any interest in any
Of the real estate taken by any of said locations are
heirs of william Lindsay, John Neal, Thomas Bar
ker, Mrs. Mary Merrill, Nehemiah c: Rice Portland
Martha I. Abb tt and Edwin Hale Abbott deyisees
Of Eben Steele, Portland Glass Works, Portland,
Saco Portsmouth Railroad Co., John W; Lane, AL
bert d. Walker, Joseph Walker, James McGlinchy
and Charles B. Walker, Dawson McGlincby, William
H. Dyer Mrs. A. A. Mayo, George H. Sayille. Thorn
Daniel Emery .e Thomas H. Weston Cumberland
s Oxford Canal Corporation. Mrs. Harriet j. Pope,
Mrs Thomas H. Weston, and other Persons to the
Boston q Maine Railroad unknown.
Now, therefore, said Corporation hereby applies to
your Honors to estimate the damages to be paid by
the said Railroad for all the real estate taken by said
BOSTON & MAINE RAILROAD.
By w. L. PUTNAM, their Attorney,
Corporation duly established by law of the State of
Maine by virtue Of the authority of the law of the
by Act of Legislature of this State, and approved by
the Governor February 18th, 1871, and having made
the survey requi ed BY said charter by its President
cordance with the description in said charter and
which is the route of the Extension, which the said
Engineer particularly surveyed and submitted for ap-
prevail at the meeting of the Directors of said Cor
poration, held the twenty-third day of September,
1871 and which is continuation of the line descrb-
ed in the location filed and approved by the Honor
able the Commissioners for the County of Cumber-
land, December 26, 1871, to wit:
Beginning at o point in the line of said Extension
In the town of Cape Elizabeth designated in said ap
proved location as Station 22l6, thence continuing
the curve to the right with radius Of two thousand
and twenty-five COPY feet eleven hundred sixty
Q16O) feet to Station 2227 plus co. thence n 80 deg.
46 min E. (all the courses herein mentioned being
magnetic twenty-eight hundred 2s00 feet to Station
2255 plus co. thence curving to the right with radi
us of thirteen hundred seyenty-fve Q375) feet, six
hundred eighty (6sO feet to Station 2262 plus 40;
thence s. 67 deg E. two hundred and fortyeight 24S
feet Station 2264 plus 49, thence curving to the left
with radius of thirty eight hundred seventy-ive
Ell III plus 80, thence n SGT deg E., seven hundred
seventynne 77 feet to Station 22s0 plus 8; thence
curve to the left with radius of ffty-seven
hundred thirty $3.50 feet, four hundred six 4O6 feet
to Station 22S4 plus Is; thence n. 82i deg E. nine
hundred seventy 970) feet to Station 2293 plus So;
thence curving to the left with radius of twenty
eight hundren sixty-ive (2S63 feet, three hundred
seventy (370 feet to Station 2297 plus 55 thence N
rs deg. eight hundred fOrty-seven SID feet to Sta
ton 23O6 plus q thence curving to the left with
dius of nine hundred ftyye (950 feet five hundred
n. AZ deg. E. eighteen hundred sixty QS6O feet to
Station 1880 plus 5, at Maple Street in the city Of
Portland
Taking strip of land with all the materials in and
upon the same four a. rods in width Of which the
foregoing line now staked out is the centre line
throughout with the exceptions hereinafter specif-
eally mentioned and such other exceptions may be
pointed out to the Honorable Commissioners, and
spe ifcally described in schedule hereafter to
be filed herewith. Said line passes through and said
location takes the land with all the materials in and
Dyer, Mrs. Raymond, X. Cram, Portland, Saco and
Portsmouth Railroad Company, Mrs Ingraham, j.
w. Lane, Hiram Brooks. N. G. Rice j. g. True &
Co.. H. N Jose, P. c, Hersey, j. d. Brown, Portland
Gas Company, and the land of some other persons
whose names said Cooperation has been unable as
yet to ascertain.
%. At meeting of the Directors of the Boston and
Maine Railroad, September g. 1871, the following vote
was passed:
"poted, That the route of the extension of this
Road in Maine. which the Engineer has particularly
Boston and Maine Railroad Extension Schedule of
Variations in width from the four ~ rods, being the
exceptions above referred to-
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