The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-03-02
CITY ADvERTusRmENTs.
STATE OF MAINE.
TO THE ELECTORS
OF THE
City of Portland

pURSUANT to warrants from the Mayor and
Dy warn and notify the Inhabitants of said CITY Of
Portland, qualified according to law 10 meet an
I me Y rsssPecuse Ward Rooms, on the first MON
DAY OF March, A. ID. 1889, being the fourth day
OF SAID month"; at ten o'clock In the forenoon then
and there u, give in their votes for Mayor, one
Alderman, three Common Councilmen. a Warden.
Clerk, and two City Constables residents OF said
WARD, 10 serve Tor one year Except that the
Island wards may each elect one constable)
Also In Wards Two, -Four, Six and Seven TO give
In their votes for one member of the Superintend
ing School Committee, resident In said Wards To
ser serve two years, and In Ward Three for one MEM
serve one year to fill vacancy
,. ana further then and there TO give in their
ballots upon the following question:
Whether the legal voters OF the City of Portland
named shall fall within the limits of the CITY ~
Portland an extension OF the Portland & Roch-
the Portland Rochester Railroad and III offlcers
under the act hereinafter referred to- commepcing
~ polns IA rortand In or near the Mil Pond on
me Westerly SIDE OF Green street. thence westerly
70 anu crossing Grove street and st. John street.
snynce soulh-westery to connection with the
sailIoau oi tne Maine Central Railroad Company
between Portland and Congress Streets
sala question Is submitted in accordance with
va of Mans Of an Aet 81 the Legislature
the Charter Of the Portland & Rochester RAN.
r i,a. approved February 18th, 1889. under
tile 10th day OF February, A. ID. 1889 file In writ
ing with the Clerk Of said CITY OF Portland a fnl
ana complete description Of the above proposed
extension, stating therein in definite terms lhe
initial and terminal points of said location. and
the courses and distances between said points by
which said location should be fixed and deter
mined, which said description SO dled by said
TENOR
Commencing in the City Of Portland AT Station
o, point In the Mil Pond at the end OF a curve
on the now existing Railroad of the Portland &
Rochester Railroad, and beng six hundred feet
distant measuring westerly along the centre Of
the track Of the Portland & Rochester Railroad
from point In the centre OF Green Street: thence
eurvlng to the left with ten degrees curve, 1--WE
dred feet; thence on a tangent to said curve south
elghty-six degrees fifteen minutes west two hun
dred feet TO station eight; thence on a curve of
two degrees TO the left twenty-eight hundred and
sixty-hye feet radius five hundred feet to station
thirteen; thence on curve of four degrees to the
nall feet radius, three hundred and fifty feet TO
station sixteen plus fifty; thence on tangent 10
as, cuatr s0aln sdsy.wo aegrees nfteen minutes
twenty-eight; thence on curve TO the left of SIX
degrees, nine hundred and fifty five feet radius
thirty-one plus fifty; thence on a tangent TO said
curve south forry-one degrees fifteen minutes
west, TOUR hundred and iwenty-seven feet to
station tnlrty nve plus seventy-seyen; thence on a
curve TO left of six degrees thirty minutes eli ht
hundred and eighty-one and one-half feet radius
the Maine Central Railroad Company near Union
station, between Portland and Congress Streets
) Inc lines described as aforesaid are the central
lines OF said intended extension, which extension
and the location thereof viii lie two rods in width
on each side OF said lines.
said intended extension and the location thereof
VIII cross Grove Street under grade and St. John
street and Portland street by o erhead Crossings
and will be constructed, maintained and used &C.
corang 70 me directions and provisions Of said
additional e the charter of the Portland 8
Rochester Railroad" the Statutes and Laws
State.
Such question shall he determined IN the tollovy-
ing manner, that IS TO say: Each voter In favor
OF such proposed extension shall express such
preference by ballot bearing the word YES
anu eac IN. voter opposed thereto, by ballot
ct, Tbs pa.lis on such day of election TO remain
they shall be closed.
1 also give notice to said inhabitants that the
Aldermen OF said city viii be in open session at the
Aldermen,s Room, in City Building, from nine TO
LWelVe O'Clock IN the forenoon and from two to
nve O'Clock In the afternoon, on each OF the four
secular days next preceding such day OF election
tor me purpose Of receiving evidence of the quail
ncatlon OF voters whose names have not been en-
tered on the lists OF qualified voters in and for the
several Wards, and for correcting said lists
- GEO. G. BURGESS, City Clerk
City OF Portland, February 20, 1889. feb2Idtd