The Portland daily press., 1889-03-01
CITY Em ENTs.
STATE OF MAINE.
TO THE ELECTORS
City of Portland

PURSUANT TO warrants from the Mayor and
Il Aldermen of the Cityof Portland, / here
warn and notify the Inhabitants of said City Of
Portland, qualified according to law, to meet at
their respective Ward Rooms, on the first MON
DAY of March, A. ID. 1889, being the fourth law
OF said month, at ten O'Clock In the forenoon then
and there to give In their votes for Mayor one
Alderman, three Common Councilnlen, a Warden
Clerk, and two City Constables, residents Of said
ward, to serve for one year Except that the
Island wards may each elect one constable0
81 Also In Wards Two, Four, Six and Seven 10 give
10 tnelr votes for one member Of the superintend-
ing School Committee, resident In said Wards to
serve two years, and In Ward Three for one mem
Der of the experimenting School Committee to
serve one year to fill a vacancy.
And further then and there to give in their
ballots upon the following question: -
Whether the legal voters of the City of Portland
will approve, SO far as the location hereinafter
named shall fall within the limits of the City OF
Portland, an extension Of the Portland & Koch
ester Railroad or branch thereof proposed by
the Portland Rochester Railroad and its officers
under the act hereinafter referred to, commencing
at point In Portland in or near the Mill Pond on
the westerly side OF Green street, thence westerly
thence south-westerly to connection with the
railroad OF the Maine Central Railroad Company,
sad aaeston Is snbmtfed n accnSacs with
the provisions OF an Act of the Legislature of the
state Of Maine, entitled IAN Act additional to
the Charter of the Portland g. Rochester Rail-
road,o approved February 18th, 1889, under
which said Portland & Rochester Railroad did on
the 18th day OF February, A: ID. 1889 file in writ
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and complete description Of the above proposed
extension, stating therein In definite terms the
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 filed by said
Portland s. Rochester Railroad is of the following
Commencing in the City Of Portland at Station
Q, point In the Mil Pond at the end of 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 q Rochester Railroad
from point in the centre of Green Street; thence
curying to the left with ten degrees curve, five
hundred and seyenty-three feet radius six hun
dred feet; thence on tangent to said curve south
eighty-six degrees fifteen minutes west two hun
dred feet TO station eight; thence on curve of
two degrees to the left twenty-eght hundred and
sixty-ive feet radius five hundred feet to station
thirteen thence on curve of four degrees to the
!eft, fourteen hundred and thirty-two and one
half feet radius, three hundred and fifty feet to
station sixteen plus fifty; thence ON tangent to
said curve south sixtytwo degrees fifteen minutes
west, eleven hundred and fifty feet to station
twenty-elght; thence on curve TO the left Of six
degrees, nine hundred and fifty five feet radius,
three hundred and fifty feet to sta ION
thirty-one plus fifty; thence on tangent to said
curve south forty-one degrees fifteen minutes
west, four hundred and twenty-seven feet TO
station thirty.nve plus seventy-seven; thence on
hundred and eighty-one and one-half feet radius
fye hundred and thirty feet to the main track of
me Maine Central Railroad Company near Union
otatlon, Detween PORTLAND and Congress otreets:
The lines described as aforesaid are the central
lines OF said intended extension which extension
and the location thereof will 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 viii be constructed maintained and used &C.
cordng 70 the directions and provisions OF said act
additlonal to the charter of the Portland &
Rochester Railroad" the Statutes and Laws
State.
Such question shall be determined In the follow
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 eacn voter opposed thereto, by ballot
bearing the word "N0D
Inc polls on such day of election to remain
they shall be closed
also give notice to said inhabitants that the
Ai9ermen OF said city will bein open session at the
tAlusrmens Room, In City Building, from nine 70
WE'VE avg oelock IN the forenoon, and from TWO TO
I'VE O'Clock In the afternoon, on each Of the four
secular DAYS next preceding such day OF election,
Tn r tS purpose OF receiving evidence OF the quail
nCa n oI voters whose names have not been en-
terea on the lists OF qualified voters in and for the
several wards, and for correcting said lists.
GEO. @. BURGESS, City Clerk: