Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1899-07-26
lfaal Notiffs.

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To the Honorable Court of County Commits
sioners TOR the county of Hancock. and
State of Maize. to be holden at Ellsworth,
within and for said county of Hancock, on
the second Tuesday of April, A. d. 1899.
d ESPECTFULLY represents H. c. Smith,
~ of Stonington, in said county, that a
town way from point eighty feet easterly
from the northeasterly corner of the dwell
ing house formerly occupied by Clarence
Knowlton, or .hereabouts; thence southerly
over land of John Mcdonald and along the
easterly line of land formerly occupied by
said Clarence Knowlton, and southerly along
the easterly lines of lands of Ann Elizabeth
H ligkins, George Allen, Mary E. Smith and
Flora Smith, and southerly over land former
ly OF Benjamin Barbour to the northerly line
of land of Charles S. Grant, in said town of
Stonington, would be of great public con-
venience; that the selectmen of said town of
Stvnington, upon petition of H. G. Smith and
twenty others, then and now inhabitants
of said Stonington, and owners OF cultivated
land therein, on the fourth day of February,
A. d. 1899, having given notice required by
law of their intention, and after hearing the
parties laid out town way over the route
described as follows, to wit;
Beginning eighty feet easterly from the I'M
Garpinning at the northeasterly corner of the
house formerly occupied by Clarence knowl-
ton in said town; thence south gig degrees
east through land of John Mcdonald and land
of the late Benjamin Barbour, fifteen rods
and seven links to stake; thence south l.
degree west through land of the late Benz
Barbour seven rods and twelve links to a
stake; thence south II degrees west through
land OF SAID Barbour TO q STAKE thence south
6ls degrees east through land of said Barbour
five rods and fifteen links to the north line of
land of Charles S. Grant. The line described
to be the middle of the way and the way to
be Two rods wide. That on the sixth day of
March. A. d. 1899, the report of the selectmen
of said town of Stonington on the laying out
of the above described way, was presented at
a public meeting of the inhabitants of said
town duly notified and warned. an article for
said purpose having been inserted in the war
rant for said meeting, which said report was
by said town rejected, and said town OF Ston-
ington has unreasonably refused to allow and
approve said town way laid out by the Sc
lectmen aforesaid, and to put the same on
record.
Wherefore your petitioner, within one year
thereafter. considering himself aggrieved by
such delay and refusal, prays that your
honors may, agreeably to law in such case
made and provided. accept and approve said
town way, and direct the same to be duly re-
corded. II. c. SMITH.
Dated at said Stonington. July 6, 1893,
STATE OF MAINE.
HANCOCK SS.:-Court of County Commits
sioners April term, A. ID. 1899.
Upon the foregoing petition it is considered
by the commissioners that the petitioners are re
sponsibe, and that they ought to be heard
touching the matter set forth in their petition,
and therefore order that the county commits
soners meet on the premises on Tuesday, the
twenty ninth day Of August next, at . O'Clock
In the forenoon, and thence proceed To view
the route mentioned in said petition, imme-
diately after which vicw hearing OF the parties
and witnesses will be had at some convenient
place III lllt NltluitSi anu sum tthNi IhttSHlto
taken in the premises as the commissioners shall
Judge proper. And it is further
ordered That notice OF the time, place and
purpose of the commissioners meeting aforesaid
be given to all persons and corporations inter
ested, by serving an attested copy of the pc
titiou and this order thereon, upon the
clerk of the town of Stonington, and by
posting up attested copies aforesaid,
III three Publle places in said town, thirty
days at least before the time appointed for
said view, and by publishing the petition and
order thereon, three weeks successfully III the
Ellsworth American, newspaper published
al Ellsworth, in the county of Hancock, the
first publication to be thirty days at least be.
fore the time of said view, that all persons and
corporations interested may attend and be
heard if they think lit.
Attest JOHN f. KSowLrOS, Clerk,
A true copy of the petition and order thereon.
ttc-t.-JOHN +. kSuWLrON, Clerk,