Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1900-05-02
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To the Honorable Board of County COMMITS
sioners for Hancock county, Maine.
rIaHE undersigned owners or interes ed par
i ties in property adjoining to o. jLuated
along the public highway herein refs red to
beg to represent that common eunN enience
and necessity resulting from recent Improve.
from the village Of Seal Har5or, in t town
Of Mount Desert, in said Hancock county, and
highway shall have its present width modi-
fed to and be fixed at forty (4o) feet more or
less, so that after such modification is made
1t shall follow course whose censer line
shall be its present one but that instead o.
having width of thirty-three 1887 feet, as
now, on each side of its present center line,
it shall have width of twenty (2e) feet, more
or less, on each side of said center line; and
further, that such modification shall COM
mence at point TO be determined ~ the
honorable board OF county commissioners
in the present center of said highwa1 at the
along its present center line to its prsse MT in
terseetton with the road leading iIom the
village of Northeast Harbor to the vi age of
Somesville, both also in said Haucoel county.
Your petitioners invite the attention of
your honorable board to the fact thai when
the present highway was laid out to a width
of four ~ rods (bb feet about sixty f6l years
ago, this part of the county was bat sparsely
settled and that what has become vaiu-
able property was then looked upon being
almost wilderness Of rocks ant rcts,
that then one rod more or less made differ
ence to owners of property along its course.
Your petitioners are actuatod in 4.l king
this request, because numbers of improve
ments by way of houses, stone walls, drive
ways, ETC., have already been mad On lots
fronting this highway, and also bee e-e 1t is
desired 20 make other improvement but,
before doing so, it is of vital importance to
all concerned that your honorlble board
modify the width of the present highw and
fix it as herein requested, 10 inake it
conform TO the many changes and III prove
ments made during recent years along its
fra can't hi ttah hon
Your petitioners allege that conn "a cor
venience, necessity, equity, and reasonable
regard for the outlay they have made and in
tend making in improving property along
said highway, require the aforesaid rodifca
tion in its present width and that VII fixed
at the width herein asked for, it will be ample
for the passing of vehicles going in oppo-
site directions and will fulfil all the require
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 modifca-
tion may be made and the width fixed as
hereinbefore requested.
RICHARD DAVENPORT
and thirty eight others.
Northeast Harbor, Hancock Co., Maine,
January, TO- 1860.
STATE or MAINE
HANCOCK SIS. Court of County CoTmis-
sioners, April term, A. ID. 1900.
Upon the foregoing petition the commissions
ers being satisfied that the petitioners are re-
sponsible. that an inquiry into the merit Is ex-
pedient and that the petitioners ought to be
heard touching the matter set forth In their pc
tition, order that the county commissioners meet
Al the hotel of A. Z. Savage, at Northeast HaT-
Dor. on Tuesday, the I'D day If MAJ, A. ID.
1900, at 10 O'Clock A. NJ and themes pre- coed to
view the route mentioned in said petition, imme-
dEtey after which view, a hearing OF the parties
and witnesses will be had at some coHyenient
place In the vicinity, and such other measures
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
Ike given to all persons and corporations inter
ested, by serving an attested copy of the pc
tition and this order thereon, upon the
clerk of the town of Mount Dts,rt, and
by posting up attested copies as aforesaid,
Ia 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. a 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 fit.
Attest john +. kNOwLToN, Clerk.
true copy of the petition and order thereon.
Attest:-JOHN +. kNowLToN. Clerk.