The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-01-01
ANIMATION COVENANT.


ing at the latest registration was two
hundred and twenty-five while the aver
age number of voters in the seven wards
OF portland at the latest registration was
Twelve hundred and ninety-eight. 1t is
1he num- Der of voters and not the extent
Oh territory, which must mainly deter
mine the number of wards to which
Deering. would be entitled in beconino n
part of Portland. Taking in account the
more rapid increase of population in the
| sparsel!7 settled wards of Deering than in
1ne thlfskly settled wards of Portland, and
having some reference to the varied in
oerests represented in so large a territory
as that, of Deering, 1t would not be
equlta bic to insist that the Deeriug wards
at tne moment of annexation should con-
TAIN as large voting population as those
ol Fof 'tland, and, on the other hand. it
"ouh be inequitable and preJudicial to
tne harmony of the municipality, to
estab fish new wards which. in the num-
Der o voters. would be in striking dispro-
| pof0l On to the old wards. Deeming it in
e1pe' 1ient to change the existing ward
lines of Portland, it appears equitable, in
the Judgment of the commission. to pro-
vide for the annexation of Deering as two
ware Is, having an average voting popula-
5lon of seven hundred and eighty-seven.
Y pom these findings, and upon the con-
side ration of other matters pertaining TO
the annexation, the commission. by virtue
OF he authority vested in it by the En-
abl ing Act above cited, has agreed and
IKE d upon the following terms and con-
dltAions for the annexation of Deering to
70 @tland.
THIRST. Upon the contamination of the
an Esxation. all the inhabitants and terri
to- of the enlarged municipality shall
tn after be subject to the charter and
eli ,ecturdnances of Portland, and to the
lea by tAtive enactment pertaining to said
CT e. r. except as herein otherwise pro-
4 led
Second. The city of Deering shall be
SO Hided into two wards by line begin
ng on Back Bay, at point in the CEN
lssf of Pearl street in the city of Portland
blended to the boundary line of Port
nd; thence in straight line across
Back Bay to the center of Chenery street
n the city of Deering; thence by the CEN
ter of Chenery street to the center of
Ocean street; thence by the center of
Ocean street to the center of Forest ave-
nue.; thence by the center of Forest ave.
nue. to the center of Pleasant street
thence by the center of Pleasant street to
the center Of Stevens Plains avenue;
thence by the center OF Stevens Plains
avenue to the center Of Spring street;
thence by the center of Spring street to
the center of Brighton street; thence by
center of Brighton street to the Westbrook
city line.
All that part of the city of Deering ly-
| ing westerly of the line thus described
shall become Ward s, and all that part of
The city of Deering lying easterly of said
line shall become Ward 9, of the city Of
Portland so that thereafter said city shall
be divided into nine wards, and these
wards SO constituted shall have the same
form of organization, and the same rights
of representation in the city government
and in the school committee of Portland
as belongs to the other wards of said city
SO that the mber constituting the Com
mon Council shall be increased to twenty
seven, and the number constituting the
Board of Aldermen, and the school COM
mittee, shall be increased in each case to
| nine. At the first municipal election
after the annexation member of the
school committee shall be elected from
Ward to serve for one year. and a MEM
| Der of the school committee shall be
elected from Ward to serve for two
years, and thereafter each of these wards
shall elect it's member of the school com.
mittee for the term of two years.
| The warrants for the first ward meet
| ings in said Wards and shall be made
returnable, by the constable posting the
same, to some voter in each of SAID wards
designated by the municipal officers Of
the city of Portland, who shall call said
ward meetings to order for the election of
warden and ward clerk to preside at
said meetings, and the warden and ward
clerk so elected shall qualify and perform
all tho duties deyolving upon the warden
and clerk under the provisions of the city
charter.
Third All city property of Deering
shall become the property of the city of
Portland, and the city of Portland shall
assume all contract obligations of the
city of Deering existing at the date of
this report, and all the indebtedness, both
temporary and bonded Of the city of Deer
ing, and shall provide for the payment of i
the same according to the terms under |
which the several debts were contracted;
but until the process Ct annexation is |
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