Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1899-08-02

To the Honorable Court of County Commits
sioners tor the county of Hancock, and
State of Maine, to be holden At Ellsworth,
within and for said county of Hancock, on
the second Tuesday of April A. ID. 1893.
d ESPECTFULLY represent Il. I. Smith.
~ of stonington, in said county, chat u
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 souGerIy along
the easterly lines of lands of Ann Elizabeth
Hodgkins George Allen, Mary f. 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
Stonington, upon petition OF ii. o. smith and
twenty-s 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 un
derpinning at the northeasterly corner of the
house formerly occupied by Clarence knowl-
ton in said town: thence south 3l2 degrees
east through land of John Mcdonald and land
of the late Benjamin Barbour, fifteen rods
and seven links to stake; thence south l9
degree west through land of the late Benz.
Barbour seven rods and twelve links to a
stake; thence south IL degrees west through
land of said Barbour to a stake; thence south
81. degrees east through land of said Barbour
five rods and fifteen links to the north line OF
land of Charles 5. Grant. The Iiue described
to be the middle of the way, and the way to
be two rods wide, That on tn, sixth day OF
March, A. D. 1899, the report of the seleCtmen
of said town of Stonington, Oh the laying out
of the above described way, was presented at
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 unreasoEably 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 enc year
thereafter. considering himself aEgrleved 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, 1889,
STATE OF MAINE.
HANCOCK SS.-Court of County Commits
sioner- April term, A. d. 1893.
Upon the foregoing petition il is considered
by the commits sioners 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
sioners meet on the premises On Tuesday, the
twenty ninth day of August next, 1T O'Clock
in the forenoon, and thence proceed to view
the route mentioned in said petition, imme-
diately after which view, hearing OF the parties
and witnesses will be had at some convenient
place in the vicinity, and such other measures
taken in the premises As the connlss oHers shall
judge proper. And it j. further
Ordered That notice of the time. place and
purpose OF the commissioners meeting aforesaid
he given TO all persons and corporations inter
estcd, by serving an attestcd copy OF the pc
tition and this order thereon, upon the
clerk OF the town of StouIneton, and by
posting up attested copies AS aforesaid,
in three public places in said town, thirty
days at least before the time appointed tor
said view, and by publishing the petition and
order thereon, three weeks successfully In tht
Ellsworth American, & newspaper published
at Ellsworth, ia the county of Hancock, the
first publication to be thirty days az least 80
fore the time Of sand view, that all persons and
corporations interested may aLtenu and ~
heard if they thiuk tit.
Attest .--iOHN +, hN0NLroNt CLERK.
\ true copy of the petition ald order ther ~
Atte-t,-JOHN +. kSpWEToN, Clcr%-