The Portland daily press., 1895-01-31

Sections two, three and four are as fol-
lows:
"Section o-The municipal officers OF
said towns and cities and the county COM
missioners with respect to said bridge,
shall have the power at all times TO make
all such regulations as to form of rail, paw
| ing between and outside of rails, grade of
roadbed, the rate of speed and removal of
snow and ice from the streets, roads and
| highways by said company as the public
convenience and safety may require. Said
corporation shall keep and maintain in re-
pair such portions of the streets, town or
| county roads and bridge as shall be ocCu-
pied by the tracks of its railway, and for a
| space of eighteen inches outside of each
rail and, and shall make all other changes
and repairs of said streets and roads as may
be rendered necessary by the occupation of
the same by said company"
| Section 3.-SaId corporation shall erect
and construct in such manner as shall be
approved by said county commissioners
way and bridge for its tracks on the easters
ly side of and adjoining said Portland
bridge with an open draw therein for the
| passage of vessels of the same width as the
draw of said Portland bridge and may, I'M
commissioners shall from time to time pre-
SCRIBE lay it's tracks on and over the draw
of said Portland bridge and upon and owe
the easterly side OF said Portland bridge TOR
such space and distance from the Portland
end as said county commissioners shall pre-
scribe Tor entering upon and leaving the
| same and upon and over the easterly side of
| said bridge and highway from the Cape
La1 h and heraOf IN + he said (ra w Iidar
such requirements as the county commits
| sioners may from time TO time prescribe,
| provided that after d period of five years
from the construction of said road upon the
Cape Elizabeth end of said bridge SAID
county commissioners may, upon notice and
hearing and without right of appeal. deter
mine and prescribe that said corporation
shall remove it's tracks from the Cape Eliza
beth end of said bridge or any part thereof
| excepting said draw, and such space from
the southerly end thereof as said county
commissioners shall prescribe for entering
upon and leaving the same and said corpo-
ration shall thereupon remove Its SAD
tracks and construct It's own bridge upon
the easterly side of said Portland bridge as
| herein authorized, and provided further
| that If at any lime said county county COM
missioners or any court of competent Juris-
diction shall determine that said bridge and
way shall be widened, the expense thereof
to the extent of eight feet in width, shall
be borne by said corporation.
| Section 4.-Said corporation shall at all
Times erect cons truct and maintain all such
fences, partitions and other projections be-
tween it's bridge and tracks and the high
way over and upon said bIioge as said
| county commissioners shall prescribe for
the safety of the public in the use of said
highway and bridge, and shall repair and
pay all wear and damage of said Portland
bridge and draw, and highway caused by IFS
use of the same and all damage and expense
which said county may thereby suffer Or
incur, and in o case shall the county of
Cumberland bear, assume or share any ex-
penditure which is caused or necessitated
| hy the location, constitution and repair of
said road.
| Hon. Charles F. Libby, representing him.
| self Mr.. George S. Hunt and others living
| on the Shore road in Cape Elizabeth called
attention to the fact that the road IN
! places is SO narrow that track could not
| be laid upon it without causing danger to
carriages. Mr.. Libby said that he did not
| oppose the charter but, as that document
did not define over what part of the thirty
| miles of road in Cape Eliza beth the line was
to be built, he did want a provision that
this Shore road should be made safe by
widening it in it's narrow parts. Several
OF hers spoke.
| EVENING HEARINGS.
| The Cumberland county delegation
| voted this evening to report bill providing
for the funding of the county's indebted
ness, leaving the amount of the temporary
loan that the county commissioners may
contract as at present.
The committee on Maine State year book
voted to recommend the purchase OF six
hundred for 1895 and niness.hundred for 1896,
when the legislature will meet.
Petitions from Portland Wholesale dealers
will be presented tomorrow asking for
changes in the Insolvency law. They want
the time in which proceedings under the
law may be had made more definite.
| Hon. Orville D. Baker advocated the bill
to legalize the issue of preferred stock by
the Madison Woolsen Mill before the legal
affairs committee. The hearing was con-
| tinued at the request of Hon. Charles +.
Libby. who opposed the bill today.
| The committee voted to report favorably
on the bill to Iegalize TIE purchase of
Kittery Point bridge by the town of Kittery.
| The judiciary committee has acted favor
ably on bill to change the Portland harbor