Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-03-05

An act to incorporate the Lisbon Falls
Water Company.
An act to incorporate the trustees Of the
John Stevens Academy af Blushill.
An act to amend chapter 5ae Of the
Privzte and Special Lava Of 1883 relating
to Gardiner and Randolph Railroad Com.
pany.
An act to incorporate Persia Insurance
Company.
An ACT concerning boomase rights ..
R1mferd.
An act to amend section lls Of chapter
81 OF the Revised Statutes relating to rail-
roads.
An set in relation 10 the municipal court
Of the city Of Portland.
An act to legalize the proceedings by
which Msgalloway Plantation was organ
ized
An act relating to the Thomson Houston
International Eiect,ic Company.
An act to amend section "a Of chapter
10 Of the Revised Statutes relating to
insolvency proceedings.
An act to smsnd the charter Of the city
Of Auburn.
An act 10 Incorporate the Rumford Falls
and Antoyer Telegraph and Telephone
Company.
An act relating to the Presump.cot River
Railroad Company.
An act to authorize the Lewiston and
Auburn Horse Railroad Company 70 use
electricity A. . motive power.
An act to incorporate the Frontier Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company.
An act to authorize the town Of Skowhe-
gan to perfect its title to the school property
10 said town
An act to incorporate the Wsldoboro
Savings Bank.
to erect free bridge scross Spruce Creek
or to purchase any existing bridge across
said creek in said town of Kittery
An act to protect the fish in Noyes pond
in the town of BluehiIl in tie county of
Hancock.
An act to incorporate the Hartland Town
lIsn Association.
An act to amend section . Of chapter 574,
Private and Special Laws Of 1856 entitled
an act to incorporate the Kendalrs Mills
Villsse Corporation.
An act in relation to the talsry of the
county treasurer of the county of Cumber-
land.
An set to insure the better education of
practitioners of dental surgery and to reg
ulate the practice Of dentistry in the State
of Maine.
An act additional to and smendatory Of
chapter AZ of the Private and Special Laws
of 1887 to amend the charter Of the Water
vile and Fairfield Railrosd Company.
An act to f1 the ealary of the register
OF probate for the county Of kuOx.
An act to amend section ii of chapter IS
of the Revised Statutes rela,irg t, ways.
An act in addition to chapter ", chapter
II ard section 90 Of chapter 1888 and sec
iion Of chapter l3J Of the Revised Stat.
utes with amendments thereof relating to
Intoxicating liquors.
An act to amend sections and Of
chapter SO of the Revised Statutes relating
TO common carriers.
An &C. to incorporate the South Goulds-
p. oro Water Company.
Resolve making appropriation for re-
pairs Of roads in Indian Township, Wash
iDgion county.
Resolve making appropriations for Pas.
samsquoddy tribe Of Indians.
Resolve in favor of L. w. Look.
Resolve in favor of Oak Grove Semi.
nary.
Resolve providing for the purchase and
of CotHn's Complimentary
Digest Of the Maine Reports.
On motion by Mr.. Grindle of Hancock
Senate Document No. liz. being bill. an
act to incorporate the Bar Hsrbor Village
Association, was taken from
the table. On motion by the same senator
the bill took its second reading and passed
to be engsossed.
On notion by Mr.. Ryder Of Peuobscot-
Senate Document 1923. bill, an act to incor-
porste the Peoples Probibitory Enforce
ment League of Maine was taken from
The table. Resd once, tomorrow assigned
On motion by Mr.. Powers of Aroostook
House Document 1877, bill relating to the
Log Driving Company, was
taken from the table. Read once, tomor-
row assigned.
On motion bv Mr.. Ryder of Penob.cot--
Bill, an act to change the name of s. f. W.
Jordan. ard also bill. "An act to change
the name of Willism Ella were taken from
The table, were read twice under suspension
Of the rules ard passed to be engrossed.
On motion by Mr.. Walton Of Somerset-
Bill, an act to change the name of Is. NJ.
Freese of Orono, and bill, an act to change
the name of Rives Carpenter Mitchell Of
Pstten we're taken from the table, and
passed to be enacted.
SPECIAL Assessments.
Senate Document LOG. An act to authorize
he couaty commissioners OF Ssgsdahoc
county to locate and establish q highway
across Atkins bay.
Mr.. Swsnton Of Ssgadshoc-I desire to
state to the Senate the circumstances con-
nected with that matter. as l understand
hem, which are these: The promoters Of
this measure desire to compel the town of
TO build a bridge and road at
an expense of about SIS 900 across Atkin'.
bay. The town Of rhippsburg 10 situated
in the south portion of Ssasdshoc county,
and has an area Of about so square miles
lrd rough. very little ti,lage lsad, and On
poor town. l. hss a population
Of about 400 at the last census. about 800
voters and a valuation of about 1871 900.
I's rate Of taxation is about per cent. and IL
ias debt Of about s25 900. On the sea
board side of Phippsburg is q beach, and
It the ess.erly point Of that beach is Hun
le xell's Point where Fort Pophaun is stu
sted. Just north Of Hume welrs is Atkins
bay, shoal bay which makes
n from the westward STOUT two
miles in extent. The town road from
to the Point skirts Atkins bay
On the west side. That is maintained by
he town and has aome Of the population
upon it. II is . road which has been in
existence for good many years Nov
Point 10 Summer resort and
has been. at intervals, for some thirty or
forty years. The first house, to my reeol
k ction, was bu;it there more than thirty
1ne years sgo. II is 8 beach jast at the
month of the river, and communication
IS mainly by steamer on the river. IL has
now sbout fifty permanent population.
Two small hotels and about twenty summer
cottages. 1t 10 valued by the town for
taxable purposes, q. about $40 900 At
sin's bsy, of course, Laws upon the north
,ide Of Hunnewell's Poin. and conse-
1uen,ly lengthens the road which skirts it
10 reach Hunnewelrs Point.
1. is desired to build 3 bridge across
Atkins bay, directly to the point, to shorten
the road, i. IL claimed, about two o. three
miles. The distance across Is from 1900
10 2o0o feet. These facts appeared before
The committee on legal sfsirs q. the hear.
ing which was had, which committee
reported this bill. II make any incorrect
statement. in regard to it. bope some mem.
Der of the committee will correct me, as l
make these statements from memory. The
cost Of building the bridge was esHmssed
by different parties a. the hearing AZ from
$1,000 to si5. 900 that il without additional
road ard approaches to the bridge The
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running through it which the bridge would
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