Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-12-09

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 Il petition of which the
following is a true copy, TO wit
To the Honorable Senate and HOUSE Of
Representatives of the state OF Name
in Legislature assembled:
The undersigned citizens of Maine mem
bers and owners of the Lawry 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 594 of the Private and Special
Laws of 1898 entitled AN Act to incor-
porate the Lawry Dam Company.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives. in Legislature assem-
bed as follows:
Section /. Section two of Chapter five
hundred and ninety-four of the Private
land Special Laws OF 1873 is hereby amend
led so that said section as amended shall
read follows:
Section 2. Said corporation is hereby
empowered and authorized to build and
in the town of Palermo between the
points where the Sheepscot river energies
from Sheepscot great pond and point
not more than mile below following the
other dam in said river in the town OF
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 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 dams and tomaile said Improvements.
And if the parties cannot agree upon the
damages, the corporation shall pay the
| proprietors of the land and materials, so
taken, such damages as shall be aScer-
| tanned and determined by the County
| Commissioners of the County in which
| such land or material, so 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 occasoned by the drawing
| Off of said water oany 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 as may be aSeertained and deter
mined by the County Commissioners of
the County in which such highways.
bridges. mills or lands SO damaged. are
situated. in the same manner and under
the same conditions and limitations as are
| by law provided in case of DANA es By
laying out of public highways. And for
damages occasioned by flowing land and
said corporation shall not be liable to an
| action at common law but persons in
IJured may have a remedy by a complaint
| Tor ilowage in which the same proceed
ings shall be had as when complaint is
made under the statute of this State for
flowing lands occasioned by raising. a
| head of water for the working of mills
and the head of water caused by said
| corporation by the maintenance of said
dams shall be drawn off on or before the
fifteenth day of May of each year"
| Section 2. Said Chapter five hundred
and ninety-four of the Private and Spec
ial Laws of 1893 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. Burrill in the town of
Jefferson and the outlet of Long pond
in the town of Windsor. piers and booms
for sorting out logs and lumber coming
down said river and for holding the same
for use and manufacture at said Burril $
mill. and are not to occasion any unrea-
tsonable delay or obstruction in the drlv-
| ing of any other logs or lumber Said
corporation may take such lands as NAV
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 it's agents, servants and
tteams, pass and repass over said shores
and to and from the same over the land
,of other persons for the purposes afore-
said, and for managing said piers and
booms making compensation therefor as
lis provided in the case of land taken in
}laying out highways"
Section 8. This Act shall fake effac,
when approved
| And as in duty bound will ever pray.
| GEORGE S. BURRiLL,
ORRISON BURRILL.
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