The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-05-28
MISCELLANEOUS
STATE OF MAINE.
TO the Honorable the County Commis-
sioners for the County Of Cumberland

CUMBERLAND, IS:
10 the Honorable the County Commits.
Noners Tor the County of Cumberland
+ RESPECTFULLY represents the Roston & Maine
that,
Whereas, said Corporation was empowered by laws
VI the SAID State, and by act approved py tne uot-
elnor thereof February 17th 1871 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 as
Portland; and whereas, said corporation has made
the survey required by said act and the said railroad
extension has been located according to the descrip
ton thereof in said act, and within the time required
by said act and, whereas, the locations thereof with
the city of Por lind 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
as follows:-The first location February 9Th, A. d.
1872; the second location February 18th, A. d. 1872;
the third location February 14th A. d. 1872, and the
fourth location February 10th, A. D, 1872, all which
appears more fully by the certified copies Of the same
hereto annexed and made part of this petition
All the persons who at the times of said several
of the real estate taken by any of said locations
the following Lindsay and Others unknown,
heirs Of William Lindsay, John Neal, Thomas Bar;
Gas Light c., Charles N. Bean, Abby A. Steele,
Martha L. Abb tt and Edwin Hale Abbott devisees
of Eben Steele, Portland Glass Works, Portland,
Saco g. Portsmouth Railroad Co., John W. Lane, AL
bert D. Walker Joseph Walker, James McGlinchy
and Charles B. Walker, Dawson McGlincby, William
L.
as Mccarthy Stephen X. Dyer, City Of Portland,
Daniel F. Emery, Thomas II. Weston, Cumberland
q Oxford Canal Corporation Mrs. Harriet j. Pope,
Mrs. Thomas IL. Weston, and other -rsons to the
Boston Il 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
'O''''''''' VI BOSTON G. MAINE RAILROAD.
By w. L. PUTNAM their Attorney.
And now comes the Boston and Maine Railroad, a
Corporation duly established by law Of the State of
Maine by virtue of the authority of the law of the
State and that conferred upon it by charter granted
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
and Engineer, files the following location in ac-
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 describ-
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 point in the line of said Extension
in the town of Cape Elizabeth, designated in said APP
proved location as Station 2216 thence continuing
the curve to the right with radius of two thousand
and twenty-five C2021 feet, eleven hundred sixty
Q1GO feet to Station 2227 plus 80, thence N. 80 deg
46 min. E. (al the courses herein mentioned being
magnetic) twenty hundred (2S00 feet to Station
2255 plus 60, thence curvng to the rightwith radi
US Of thirteen hundred seventynve $3.50 teet SIX
thence S. 81 deg. f. two hundred and Eight 24
feet to Station 1854 plus 49, thence curvng to the left
with a radius of thirty eight hundred seventy-five
(3s75) feet six hundred y-one 65D feet to Station
2271 plus 80, thence N. SCI deg. E., seven hundred
seventynine Q9 feet to Station 22sO plus s. thence
on a curve to the left with radius of ffty-seven
hundred thirty $3.50 feet, four hundred six 06) feet
to Station 22S4 plus Is; thence n. S25 deg e. nine
hundred seventy 970 feet to Station 2293 plus So;
thence curvng to the left with radius Of twenty
eight hundred sixty-fve (2S65 feet, three hundred
seventy $40 feet to Station 2297 plus IS: thence n.
rs deg eight hundred fortyseven $50 feet to Sta
ton 1906 plus thence curving to the left with ra-
dius of nine hundred ftyfve (950 feet five hundred
forty feet 543 to Station 2311 plus 45 thence
N AZ deg. E. eighteen hundred sixty (1S60) feet to
Station 1880 plus 5, Maple Street in the city Of
Portland.
Taking strip of land with all the materials in and
upon the same foU (4) rods. in width Of which the
foregoing line Sw staked out is the centre line
throughout with tine exceptions hereinafter specli-
caly mentioned and such other exceptions as may be
pointed out to the Honorable Commissioners, and
mo spe iically described in schedule hereafter to
be filed herewith Said line passes through and said
upon the same OF Portland Rolling Mills; Heirs of N.
Dyer Mrs. Raymond, r. Cram, Portland, Saco and
Portsmouth Railroad Company, Mrs Ingraham, j..
w Lane Hiram Brooks, n. G. Rice j. g. True 81
Co.. H. N Jose, P. c. Hersey, j. B. Brown, Portland
Gas Company, and the land of some other persons
whose names said Corporation has been unable as
yet to ascertain.
At meeting of the Directors of the Boston and
Maine Railroad September 49, 1871 the following vote
was passed:
"Toted, That the route of the extension of this
Road in Maine which the Engineer has particularly
surveyed be, and is adopted"
Boston and Maine Railroad Extension, Schedule of
Variations in width from the four az rods being the
exceptions above referred to.