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

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To the Honorable Board of Railroad Commits.
sioners for the State of Maine:
TIME Washington County Railroad Company
l. respectfully represents that there Is Il
highway leading from Ellsworth to Franklin
both In Hancock county, State of Maine, and
over Netherlands Hill, so-called, in the town of
Hancock, in said County and State, which high
way is hereinafter called the "old road; that
there Is alsO highway In said town of Hancock
which is hereinafter Called the new road" and
which DIVORCES from said "old road" at or near
the town line between Ellsworth and Hancock
and runs to the north of and around said Nc.
Farland's Hill and connects again with said
"Old road" near the school house at the foot of
said McFar lands Hill in said town of Hancock,
That the location of said Washington County
Railroad Company in the said town of Hancock
crosses said new road" In said town of Han
cock at or near the Batcheider Farm, called,
and that the railroad of the Maine Central Rail.
road Company also crosses said road mt
grade at point about two hundred feet south
easterly from the crossing of said Washington
County Railroad Company;
The said Wa hington County Railroad Com.
pany respectfully applies to your Honorable
Board and asks that. for the purpose of facili
tating the said crossing of said Washington
County Railroad Company. your Honorable
Board will alter the course of said highway
called the new road" as aforesaid by turning
said new road in q general southwesterly di-
Iection, beginning at or near point in said
new road" distant three hundred and fifty
(3G) feet easteriy or southeasterly from the
Southerly line of location of said Maine Central
Railroad Company where it crosses said "ncw
road" near said Batcheder Farm, and running
1t with width of four rods in general South,
westerly direction across the land of Theophilu-
}. Batchelder aud Hosea b. Phillips and ending
at or near a point In said "old road" leading
over Mcfarland's Hin three hundred and fifty
$3.50 feet distant Southerly from the Southerly
line of location of said Maine Central Railroad
Company where it crosses said 'od road" and
that your honorable Board will thereupon dis
continue all that portion of said "new road"
now extending from the point of beginning of
said alt ration as hereinbefore prayed for to the
present point OF junction of raid new road
with the "old rOad" leading over McFarland's
Hill near the town line between Ellsworth and
Hancock aforesaid,
And said Washington County Railroad Com
pany further requests your Honorable Board
for the purpose aforesaid To take such land
may be necessary and to award damages there
for in accordance with the provisions of Section
3 of Chapter % of the Public Laws of the State
of Maine of the year 1889, and to apportion the
expense of such alteration 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
Honorable Board and permitted by law
Dated this -4lh day of January A. ID. 1898.
WAsHINGToN COUNTY RAILROAD COMPANY.
by GEO. A. CURRAN, its President.
true copy, Attest e. e. FARRINGToN, Clerk.
On the foregoing petition ordered That the
petitioner cause to he published Il true copy of
said petition and this order of notice thereon.
three days successfully in the Daily Wing 4
Courier. newspaper published at Bangor, In
the county Of Penob-cot. and in one issue of
the Ellsworth American, newspaper pub
lehed at Ellsworth, in the county of Hancock,
the first pub cation in each paper to be at least
five days before Tue sday, the 18th day of April.
A. ID ISIS, on which day the Board of Railroad
Commissioners will be in session at the Amer
lean House. in Ellsworth, at nine O'Clock in the
forenoon, for the purposes indicated in said
petition. Said petitioner shall send copies of
the foregoing petition and order to the county
commits -lUncr, of Hancock county, also to the
municipal officers of the town of Hancock, and
to the Maine Central Railroad Corporation, and
To ThrOphilu- J. Batchclder and Hosea b.
Phillips seven days before said hearing
JOSEPH h. PEARS, Chairman,
for the Board OF Railroad Commissioners of
Maine,
Dated M, lr-t day Of April \. D. ls9s.