Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-10-17
To the Honorable Board OF Railroad
Commissioners Of the State Of Maine.

To the Honorable Board OF Railroad
Commissioners of the State of Maine:
The undersigned. municipal officers Of
the town of Woodyille, In the county Of
Penobscot respectfully represent that the
county commissioners OF said county Of
Penobscot.. at term Of their court held
on the sixth day of May, 1898, laid out and
located county road In said town OF
Woodville, which crosses the railway
track of the Canadian Pacific Railway
Company; said county road having been
located and established by metes and
bounds, as appears by the following copy
from the records of said county commits
SionerS, viz:
"Beginning at the northeriy terminus
Of the river road, in the town Of Chester,
and on the line dividing Chester from
Woodville, thence y So degrees: f. II
rods; thence s. ~ degrees. Il. IA rods;
thence N. 60 degrees. E. go rods; thence
n. rs degrees, II. IA rods. thence n. 81 de-
grees, e. 20 rods; thence N. 81 degrees.
r. 80 rods thence N. 81 degrees, e. 20
rods; thence n. SO degrees. 80 min E. 90
rods; thence ". 10 degrees. f. 80 rods.
thence N degrees, T.. SO rods; thence N.
~ degrees, T.. IS rods: this brings us to
the center of the Canadian Pacific Rail-
road, our center being rods west of the
westerly abutment of the bridge on the
Canadian Pacific Railroad spanning the
Penobscot river at or near Mattawam-
keag Point: thence northeriy from said
railroad north 26 degrees, Z. u rods N.
8 degrees. w. lis rods: n. degrees, E.
grees. f. So rods: n degree, w p rods;
n II degrees. 80 min. T.. 80 rods; N. IA
degrees, w. 46 rods; n. degrees. w. AZ
rods: y. 10 degrees, W. 40 rods; n. l6 rods;
60 rods; ". 3 degrees, W. 46 rods; n 10
degrees, w. "A rods: n. degrees. E. IS
rods;N; degrees. ". q rods; n. 9 de-
erees. 80 min. W. 81 rods; \. 10 degrees,
w. 66 rods: n. degrees. 80 min. w. IS
rods; \. 10 degrees, W. 40 rods: N 16 rods;
grees e. "a rods; n. 20 degrees W. Is
n
grees. W. 36 rods; n. 2 degrees, Z. So rods;
n. degrees, W. 3S rods; n. "a degrees,
y. 50 rods; y. g degrees, ", q rods: y n
min W. 10 rods; n. 20 degrees. w. 80
rods: n. 81 degrees, w. 81 rods; n. "a de-
grees. w. 20 rods; y: So degrees, w. Y
grees. w. So rods: S. 20 degrees, 30 min
w. l6 rods; S. 76 degrees. w. "a rods; S.
s. degrees, ". 60 rods; y. a degrees. W
degrees. w. 35 rods: n. 81 degrees, W. "a
rods: N IS degrees, w. 10l rods; n. Sc
degrees. 30 min. W. q rods; n. 63 de-
rods: n. Sc degrees. w so rods to the
county road leading from Iattagumpus
to Woodvilie: and we do further adjuuge
that said road shall be four rods wide,
all the monuments at the angles thereof
in the foregoing description named, being
on the westerly side of said road and
term OF two years from the sixth day of
May, 1898. is allowed to the town through
which said road is located, to open and
make the same. excepting that part of
said road from the Chester line to the
northerly line of the G. P. r. r. Co.'S To-
cation. which is to be completed and
opened for travel within eight months
from May 6, 1898. 1t is adjudged by said
commissioners that no individual is dam
aged by reason of said location more than |
the advantages to be derived therefrom.
Dated at Bangor. in said county, the
sixth day of May. 1885,
wherefore, your petitioners make APP
plication and request your honorable |
board, upon notice and hearing. to deter |
mine whether said county road shall be
permitted to cross said railway track of |
the Canadian Pacific Railway Company
at grade Herewith or not and the man.
ner and condition of crossing the same |
and whether the expense of building and |
maintaining so much thereof as is with |
in the limits of said railroad snail be |
borne by such railroad company. or by |
said town of Woodville, in which said |
way is located. or shall be apportioned |
between such railway company and said |
town of Woodville.
Dated at Woodville this eleventh day of
May, n. d. 1898.
SAMUEL H. CHESLEY, JR.
WILLIAM CHESLEY,
w. D. IRELAND,
Municipal Officers of the Town of Wood
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 Kennebec |
Journal. newspaper published at Au-
gusta, in the county of kennebec, the |
first publication in said paper to be at I
least five days before Wednesday,, the |
second day of November, A. ID. 1885, on
which day the board of railroad commits
sioners will be in session a their office
in Augusta at 10 O'Clock in the forenoon |
for the purposes indicated in said petit
ton.
], B. PEAKS. Chairman.
For the Board of Railroad Commissioners |
of Maine
Dated this tenth day of October, A. D.
1898.
A true copy.
Attest; f. c. HARRINGTON, Clerk.
oct17, 1913