Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1900-04-25
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To the Honorable Board of County Commits
sioners for Hancock county, Maine.
| FINHE undersigned owners or interested par
| L ties in property adjoining to or situated
| along the public highway herein referred to
| beg to represent that common convenience
ments require modification in the width of
the present county way or highway leading
rom the village Of Seal Harbor, in the town
that therefore your petitioners ask that said
highway shall have Its present width modi-
fed to and be fixed at forty t4oj feet, more or
less, so that after such modification is made
1T shall follow course whose center line
shall be its present one but that instead OF
having a width of thirty-three 1872 feet, as
now, each side of its present center line,
1t shall have width of twenty (20) feet. more
further, that such modification shall COM
mence at a point to be determined by the
honorable board of county commissioners
in the present center of said highway at the
village of Seal Harbor and stall continue
along its present center line to its present in
tersection with the road leading from the
village of Northeast Harbor to the village of
Somesville, both also in said Hancock county.
Your petitioners invite the attention OF
your honorable board to the fact that when
the present highway was laid cut to "A width
of four a. rods (66 feet about siSty {6a) years
ago, this part of the county was bat sparsely
settled and that what has now become valu-
able property was then looked upon s being
almost wilderness of rocks aud trees, so
that then one rod more less made no differ
ence to owners of property along its course.
Your petitioners actuatcd in making
this request, because numbers of improve
ments by way OF houses, stone walls, drive
ways, etc, have already been made on lots
fronting this highway, and also because it is
desired to make other improvements; but,
before doing so, it is of vital importance to
all concerned that your honorable board
modify the width OF the present highway and
fix it as herein requested so as to make it
conform to the many changes and improve
ments made during recent years along it's
present course within the bounds mentioned.
Your petitioners allege that common con-
venlence necessity, equity, ana reasonable
regard for the outlay they have made and in
tend making in improving property along
said highway, require the aforesaid modifca-
ton in its present width, and that when fixed
at the width herein asked for, it will be ample
for the passing of vehicles going il oppo-
site directions and will fulfil all the rec uire-
ments of present and future travel along the
same.
Wherefore your petitioners pray that no
tice be given and proceedings be taken as re-
CURED by law to the end that said modifica-
tion may be made and the width fixed
hereinbefore requested.
RICHARD DAVENPORT
and thirty-eight others.
Northeast Harbor, Hancock CO., Maine,
STATE OF MAINE.
HANCOCK ss.:-Court of County Commits
sioners, April term, A. ID. 1900
Upon the foregoing petition the commission
ers being satisfied that the petitioners are re-
sponsible, that an inquiry into the merits is eN-
pedient and that the petitioners ought to be
tition order that the county commissioners meet
at tie hotel of A. Z. Savage, at Northeast Har-
Dor, on Tuesday, the I'D day of May. ID
1900 at 10 O'Clock A. NJ r, 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 commissioners shall
judge proper. And 1t is further
Ordered That notice of the time, place and
purpose of the commissioners meeting aforesaid
be given to all persons and corporations inter-
csted, by serving attested copy of the pc
tition and this order thereon, upon the
clerk OF the town of Mount Desert, and
by posting up attested copies aforesaid,
In three public 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 in the
Ellsworth American, newspaper published
AT 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 +. KN0WLTON, Clerk.
\ true copy Of the petition and order thereon.
Attest:-JoHN f. KNowLToS. CLERK.