Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-05
PETITION FILED.
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man Patten as treasurer, adopted Z
corporate seal and determined by lol
, the term of office of said Henry Rich
ards to be one year, Freeman Patten tc
be two years and Frederick Danfortf
! TO be three years.
| 5. That your petitioner acting
, through its said board of trustees and
under the authority granted by said
act, approved, February 26, 1903, ane
| in compliance with the provisions
! thereof, has attempted to purchase
| from said Maine Water Company the
| entire plant, property, franchises
rights and privileges now held by the
Maine Water Company within said
| district and said towns of Pittston
Randolph and Farmingdale, including
all lands, waters, water rights, dams
reservoirs, pipes, machinery, fixtures
hydrants, tools and all apparatus and
appliances owned by said company and
used or useable in supplying water in
said district. But, Notwithstanding
said efforts on their part, said trustees
failed to agree with said Maine Water
Company upon the terms of purchase
of the above mentioned property on or
before May LIST, 1908.
s. That, at a meeting of said trus-
tees, duly held on the second day of
May, A. D., 1908, it was voted that said
Gardiner Water District exercise the
right of eminent domain and should
take said plant property and fran
chises as for public uses and that pro-
per legal proceedings for the carrying
out of said purposes should be forth
with taken, and petition should be
forthwith filed in the supreme judicial
court as provided by said act.
Wherefore, inaSmuch as said trustees
have failed to agree with said Maine
Water Company upon the terms of
purchase of the above mentioned prop
erty said Gardiner Water District, act
ing through it's said trustees and by
virtue of the power and authority con-
ferred by said act files this petition and
hereby exercises the right of eminent
domain and takes as for public uses, to
wit: for the purpose of supplying the
inhabitants of said district and said
towns of Randolph, Pittston and Farm
ingdale and such municipalities, to-
gether with the city of Gardiner with
pure water for domestic and munici-
pal purposes, said plant, property and
franchises of the Maine Water Com
pany. to wit: the entire plant and fran
chises, rights and privileges now held
by the Maine Water Company within
said district and said towns of Pitts
ton, Randolph and Farmingdale, in
Guiding lands. waters, water rights,
dams, reservoirs, pipes, machinery,
fixtures, MIGRANTS, tools and all APP
paratuS and appliances owned by said
company and used or useable in sup
plying water in said district and towns
and any other real estate in said dis
trict and towns and any other real eS-
tate in said district, owned by said
Maine Water Company.
And said Gardiner Water District
respectfully asks your honorable
court, after due notice to said Maine
Water Company and its mortgages
and after hearing, but within 80 days of
the filing of this petition, to appoint
three DISTINGUISHED appraisers, none of
whom shall be residents of the county
of KennebeC and one of whom shall be
learned in the law, for the purpose of
fixing the valuation of said plant,
property ana franchises; and your
petitioner asks for such further or
derS and DEGREES as the necessity of the
case may require or to your honor
may seem meet.
Dated this fourth day of May, A. D.,
1903