Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-12-16

NOTICE is hereby given to all parties
| interested that the undersigned intend to
| present to the Legislature of the State
| of Maine at the session thereof to com
mence on the first Wednesday of jan
| uary a. d. 1897 a petition of which the
| following is true copy. to witt
re the Honorable Senate and HOUSE of
in Legislature assembled:
The undersigned citizens of Maine men,
bers and owners of the I.awry Dam Com
pany respectfully request the enactment
OF the following bill. to wit;
STATE OF MAINE.
In the year Of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and ninety-seven.
An Act amendatory of and additional to
Chapter 59i of the Private and Special
Laws of 1893 entitled An Act to incor
porate the Lawry Dam Company.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives in Legislature assem-
bled. as follows:
Section /. Section two of Chapter five
hundred and ninety-four of the Private
and Special Laws of 1898 is hereby amend
ed so that said section as amended shall
read as follows:
Section p Said corporal ton is hereby
empowered and authorized to build and
maintain dam in the Sheepscot river
i'll the town of Palermo between the
points where the Sheepscot river energies
from Sheepscot great pond and point
not more than a mile below following the
river. and to build and maintain an
Somerville on the site of the old saw
mill dam at Somerville Corner. and to re-
move rocks and make all other neces-
sary improvements in said river and pond
between a point on said river in the town
of Palermo two miles above the head of
Sheepscot great pond and the saw-mill of
George S. Burrii in the town of Jeffer-
son. to facilitate the driving of logs and
lumber down the same and for this pur-
pose said corporation may take land and
materials necessary for the construction of
said a 4 m a nd tn m a 9 said improvements
And If the parties cannot agree upon the
damages. the corporation shall pay the
proprietors of the land and materials. 50
taken. such damages as shall be ascer-
tanned and determined by The County
Commissioners of the County in which
such land or material. taken. is sit
uated. in the same manner and under
the same conditions and limitations as
are by law provided in the case of dam
age by laying out public highways. If
any damage Is occaSioned by the drawing
off of said water TO any highways. bridges.
mills or lands below said dams or either
of said dams and If the parties cannot
agree upon the damages. the corporation
shall pay to the parties so damaged, such
sums may he ascertained and deter
mined by the County Commissioners of
the County in which such highways.
situa ted, in the same manner and under
the same conditions and limitations as are
by law provided in case of damages by
laying out of public highways. And for
damages occasioned by flowing land. and
such other damages heretofore mentioned
said corporation shall not be liable to an
action at common law, but persons in
jured may have Il remedy by a complaint
for Howage in which the same proceed
ings shall be had as when a complaint is
made under the statute of this State for
flowing lands occasioned by raising q
head of water for the working of mills
and the head of water caused by said
by the maintenance of said
dams shall be drawn off on or before the
day of May of each year.
Section .. Said Chapter five hundred.
and ninety-four of the Private and Spec
ial Laws of 1898 is hereby further amend
ed by adding thereto the following Sec
ton:
Section G. Said corporation is hereby
authorized and empowered TO locate,
build and maintain in Sheepscot river at
any point or points between said saw
mill of George S. Burrll in the town of
jefferson and the outlet of Long pond
for sorting out logs and lumber coming
down said river and for holding the same
for use and manufacture at said Burrills
mill, and are not to occasion any unreal
sonable delay or obstruction in the driv-
ing of any other logs or lumber. Said
may take such lands may
be necessary for the erection and main-
tenance of said piers and boOms and con-
meeting the same with the river shore.
and may with its agents. servants and
teams, pass and repass over said shores
and TO and from the same over the land
of other persons for the purposes afore-
booms making compensation therefor as /
is provided in the case of land taken in
laying out highways
Section 8. This Act shall take effect
when approved.
And as in duty bound will ever pray,
GEORGE S. BURRILL,
ORRISON BURRIIL,
l.. NJ. BURRILI.. -