The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-05-22
BOSTON & 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
ts
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
proved location as Station 2216, thence continuing
the to the right with radius of two thousand
et S sfaen 1ee co. hence
46 min. E. (all the courses herein mentioned being
magnetic) twentyeight hundred 2soO feet 70 station
us Of thirteen hundred seventy five 1918 feet, six
hundred eighty {6s0) feet to Station 2z62 plus ~
thence s. g deg TWO 0S teuce cnrviSg to- the e
with a radius of thirty eight hundred seventy
ss7O feet, six hundred fty-ope CPD feet to station
seventy-nine 79 feet to Station 22s0 plus thence
on curve to the left With radius of ffty-seven
hundred thirty 573O feet four hundred six 06 feet
to Station 22S4 plus Is; thence N s24 deg. E. nine
hundred seventy (970 feet to Station 2293 plus S.;
thence curving to the left with radius Of twenty,
seventy (37 feet to Station 2297 plus 55 thence N
IS deg eight hundred forty-seven s4 feet to Sta
ton 1906 plus q thence curyng to the left with ra
dius of nine hundred ffty-ive $3.50 feet five hundred
fortythree feet (543 to Station 23l1 plus 45 thence
N. AZ deg E. eighteen hundred sixty QS60) feet to
Station $3.50 plus g. at Maple Street in the city Of
Portland
Taking a strip of land with all the materials in and
upon the same four a. rods in width OF which the
foregoing line as staked out is the centre line
throughout with the exceptions hereinafter specif-
cally mentioned and such other exceptions as may be
pointed out to the Honorable Commissioners and
more 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
upon the same Of Portland Rolling Mills; Heirs of N.
Dyer, Mrs. Raymond r. Cram, Portland, ,Saco and
Portsmouth Railroad Company, Mrs Irgraham, j.
w. Lane Hiram Brooks. N. G. Rice, j. G. True s.
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:
"Ioted, 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
aynpntinns above referred TO-