Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-04-06
lfqaI Notices.

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bred feet southeastern from thel crossing of
said Washington County Railroad Company;
The said Washington County Railroad Com
pany respectfully applies to your Honorable
Board and asks. that for the purpose of facili-
Eating the said crossing of said Washington
County Railroad Company, your Honorable
called the new road" as aforesaid by turning
said new road in a general westerly direc-
ton, beginning at or near point in said
easterly or southeasterly from the southerly
line Of location of said Maine Central Rail-
road Company where 1t crosses said new
road" near said Batchelder Farm, and run
ming it with a width Of four rods in a general
westerly direction across land of Theophilus
j. Batchelder and Hosea B. Phillips until it
strikes the Southerly line of location of said
Maine Central Railroad Company at a point
near the dividing line between land of said
Theophilus j. Batchelder and Hosea b. Phil
lips and distant SOuthwesterly about nine
hundred and fifty feet from the point where
the Southerly line of location of said Maine
road" measuring on said Southerly line of To-
cation; then turning it and crossing the loca
ton of said Maine Central Railroad Company
at right angles and at grade and running on
land of said Theophi1us j. Batchelder and
Hosea b. Phillips in general Northwesterly
direction with width of four rods, distance
of about three hundred and seventy five feet
until it again meets said new road" at a
point about fifty feet westerly of the barn now
standing on said land of said Hosea b. Phil
lips; and that your Honorable Board will
thereupon discontinue all that portion of said
new road, now extending from the point of
beginning of said alteration as hereinbefore
prayed for to the point where said alteration
will again meet said new road as hereinbe-
fore described.
And said Washington County Railroad
Company further requests your Honorable
Board for the purpose aforesaid to take such
land may be necessary and to award dam
ages therefor in accordance with the pro-
visions of Section of Chapter 2s2 of the Pub
lie Laws of the State of Maine of the year 1889,
and to apportion the expense of such altera
ton your Honorable Board may determine
in accordance with the provisions of law and
to take any other action in the premises
which may seem proper to your Honora-
Bile Board and permitted by law.
Dated this twenty second day of March, A.
d. 1898
WASHINGTON COUNTY RAILROAD COMPANY.
By GEO. A. CURRAN, its President.
On the foregoing petition, ordered: That
the petitioner cause to be published a true
copy of said petition, and this order of notice
thereon, three days successfully IN the Daily
Wing q Courier a newspaper published at
Bangor in the county of Penobscot and in one
issue of the Ellsworth American, newspaper
published at Ellsworth in the county of Han
cock, the first publication in each paper to be
at least five days before Tuesday, the 18th day
of April, A. ID. 1898, on which day the Board
of Railroad Commissioners will be in session
at the American House in Ellsworth at nine
O'Clock in the forenoon for the purposes lndi-
Gated in said petition. Said petitioner shall
send copies of the foregoing petition and or
der to the county commissioners of Hancock
county, also to the municipal officers of the
town of Hancock and to the Maine Central
Railroad Corporation, and to Theophilus j.
Batchelder and Hosea b. Phillips seven days
before said hearing.
JOSEPH b. PEAKS, Chairman,
For the Board of Railroad Commissioners of
Maine.
Dated this first day of April, A. d. 1898.
true copy. Attest: E. FARRINGToN, Clerk.