The Portland daily press., 1873-05-24
STATE OF MAINE.

TO the Honorable the County Commits
sioners for the County of Cumberland,
RESPECTFULLY represents the Roston g. Maine
HI Railroad. corporation duly existing by law,
that, -
Whereas, said Corporation was empowered by laws
of the said State and by act approved by the Gov
e1nor thereof February 17th 1871. to extend, locate
and construct its railroad from some convenient
point on its then road in the towns Of Berwick 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
extension has been located according the descrip
by said act and whereas the locations thereof with
in the city Of Porillnd have been filed with the C0un-
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.
1875 the second location February It'll, A. d. 1872;
fourth location February 16th A. d, 1872, all which
appears 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
locations 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
Gas Light c., Charles N; Bean, Abby "A: Steele,
of Eben Steele, Portland Glass Works, Portland,
Saco Portsmouth Railroad Co., John W. Lane, Al
bert p Walker Joseph Walker James Menehy
II. Dyer. Mrs A. A: Mayo, George H. Sayille. Thorn
as Mccarthy, Stephen K. Dyer, City of Portland,
Pope
Mrs. Thomas H. Weston, and other -rsons to the
Boston & 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,
And now comes the Boston and Maine Railroad, a
I.,I.x o1nd A11f
Maine by virtue of the authority of the law of the
State and that conferred upon 1t by charter granted
BY Act Of Legislature OF this State and approved BY
the survey requi ed by said charter by its President
and Engineer now 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
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 point in the line Of said Extension
in the town of Cape Elizabeth, designated in said ap
proved location as Station 2216 thence continuing
the to the right with radius of two thousand
and twenty-five (2O22) feet, eleven hundred sixty
Is min E. (ail the courses herein mentioned being
magnetic) twenty hundred 2S0O) feet Station
2255 plus co. thence curving to the right with radi-
hundred eighty $3.50 feet, to Station 2262 plus 40;
thence s. 81 deg E. two hundred and forty-eght CAS-
1eeC 10 Statlon zl0f Plus 90 Unence curvng to the lett
with radius of thirty eight hundred seventy-five
(3s75) feet, six hundred fyone 5D feet to Station
2271 plus 80, thence N. 86k deg. E.. seven hundred
seventy 79 feet to Station 22S0 plus g. thence
a curve to the left with radius of fifty-seven
hundred thirty $3.50 feet four hundred six O6) feet
to Station 1884 plus Is; thence N 824 deg. E. nine
hundred seventy (970 feet to Station 2293 plus So
thence curying to the left with radius Of twenty
eight hundred sixtyfve (2s65) feet, three hundred
70 deg. eight hundred fortyseven S4T feet to Sta
ton 23o6 plus q thence curving to the left with
dius of nine hundred fty-ve (95 feet five hundred
forty feet 543) to Station 2311 plus 45 thence
N. AZ deg. 4. eighteen hundred sixty (S60) feet to
Station 1880 plus s, Maple Street in the city of
Portland.
Taking strip of nd with all the materials in and
foregoing line as staked out is the centre line
throughout with tine exceptions hereinafter specf-
cally mentioned and such other exceptions may be
pointed out to the Honorable Commissioners and
more spe ifcaly 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.
Portsmouth Railroad Company, Mrs. Irgraham, j.
w. Lane, Hiram Brooks, N. G. Rice, j. G. True q
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 a meeting of the Directors of the Boston and
Maine Railroad September %, 1871 the following vote
"1oted, That the route Of the extension of this
Road in Maine which the Engineer has particularly
surveyed n y be- and is adopted
Boston and Maine Railroad Extension, Schedule OF
Variations in width from the four ~ rods, being the
exceptions above referred to. f..-