The Portland daily press., 1894-07-27
To the Honorable Board of Railroad
Commissioners of the State of Maine:

The undersigned selectmen of the town
OF Cape Elizabeth, in the County of Cum
beIland and state aforesaid, being the
municipal officers of said town, respectfully
represent, that on letition of Thomas
Barker and others therefor. the County
land LAID out a public highway in said town
OF Cape Elizabeth and extending into the
town OF scarborough, in said County, com,
at point two hundred feet at right angles
from the center of the Boston and Maine
Railroad, Western Division, Nand on the
eeasterlly side of said railroad the said loca-
tlon of said road, with description and
boundaries. being more particularly set
forth and described in the order of said
county Commissioners, as shown by the
records OF the court Of SAID Board of County
commissioners, a copy of which order will
be produced at the hearing thereof.
And Your petitioners further represent
that the location and d description of said
highway, as originally set forth in said or
der OF the County. Commissioners, was after
wards, on the petition of G. M. Stanwood
and others, changed and altered by an or
der of said Board of County Commissioners
duly made on January End, 1894, as will APP
pear from the records of the said Board of
Countys commissioners, and that the loea-
ton and description of said highway as or
lglnally set forth in said order of the County
petition of j. @. a. Jordan and others,
changed and altered, within the limits of
SAID town OF Cape Elizabeth, by an order of
made on June 50th, 1894, as will appear from
the records of said County ComInissi oners.
such change and alteration, in said town of
Cape Eliza beth, making the description and
boundaries of said highway in said Cape
Elizabeth as follows:
q beginning at point on the line between
the towns Of Scarborough and Cape EliZabeth
said point being situated 33.03 feet distant
from stone monument set on said town
line, and on a course from said monument
Of y. 40 degrees 81 seconds W (Magnetic)
along said town line. Thence n. 81 degrees
10 minutes e., 1875 feet to point. Thence
making N angle to left of 1926 with the
aforesaid line 1874 feet to and across the
ton and Maine Railroad to the northerly
side line thereof. Thence continuing
same same course of n. Y degrees 80 minutes. E.,
uated 1886 fee.. westerly from the south
westerly corner of Rigby Park fence, and in
me nl with the soItherly portion thereof;
aforesaid line OF y deg, 30 minutes N. %
degrees 90 minutes E., l6S6.67 feet to point,
sald point being $50 feet westerly from Rig
uated 1872 feet southerly from the gate of
Rigby park Thence making an angle to
right of degrees. ID minutes n. % degrees
line, of the saco Road. The above de-
scribed road to be Sc feet wide, and to be
$50 feet on either side of the above de-
scrlbed center line
Ard your petitioners further represent
that said way crosses the land, location,
right OF way and tracks of the Boston and
ItldiHo itttIlTOdO u, IN SAID town of
Cape Elizabeth, which said way SO laid
out, as aforesaid, is not fully constructed;
your petitioners, therefore, as said munich
pal oIhcers, hereby make application to said
Board of Railroad Commissioners to give
due and legal notice and hearing to all
parties interested in the subject matter of
this petition, and determine whether said
way shall be permitted to.cross said railroad
land, location, right of way and tracks at
grade Herewith or not, and the manner and
condition OF said crossing and also TO deter
a nf hull 81
maintaining so much of said way as is
within the limits of said railroad shall be
borne by said Boston and Maine Railroad
Company OF by said town of Cape Elizabeth
or shall be apportioned between said com
pany and said town; and to perform all
other duties in relation thereto according
yided.
Dated at said Cape Elizabeth this four
teenth day of July, A. p. 1894.
CHARLES E. JORDAN,
MELVILLE B. FULLER,
WILLIAM E. ALLEN,
Selectmen and Municipal Officers of the
Town of Cape: Elizabeth.
Attest: E. q. HARRINGTON, Clerk.
On the foregoing Petitions:
ORDERED: That the petitioner cause to
successfully in the Portland Daily PRESS,
a newspaper published at Portland, in the
county of Cumberland, the first publication
in said paper to be at least seven days be-
fore the second day of August, A. D., 1894,
on which day the Board of Railroad Com
m1ssioners will view the location of crossing
described in the foregoing application and
be in session at the station at the juntion of
the Boston and Maine Railroad in Cape
for the purposes indicated in said petition.
d.. n. MORTLAND,
Chairman forsthe Board of Railroad Com
missioners of Maine.
Dated this 2ard day of July, A. D.. 1894.