Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-21

chuSettS to the trustees or the MaSSa-
chusetts Medical Society dated March
9, 1913, by virtue of a receive passed
Feb. 10, 1910. and by resolve passed
Feb. u, 1918. The appropriation was
one township Of land to contain six
miles square and in order to obtain
the full township of six miles square
the conveyance was Of all Of Township
Nine, Range Nine, north Of Waldo Pa
tent, except 5000 acres in the northwest
corner which had been conveyed to
William c. Whitney, and to make up
fer the 5000 acres conveyed to Whit
ney the grant included a strip of land
on the west side of Township Eight,
Range Nine, one mile in width upon
the north end and 2S6 rods In width
upon the south end.
In this grant it was provided that
the trustees of the Massachusetts Med
cal Society should lay out in the
township three lots of 320 acres eacl
FOR the following uses, namely, one lot
for the use of the ministry, one lot fol
the first settled minister, his heirs ano
assigns, and one lot for the use Of the
schools.
BY Chapter 176 of the Private Laws
Of 1880, Township Nine, Range Nine
vas Incorporated as the town of Will
son. The public lots within this town
were located by proceedings authorized
~ the act of March Is, 1921, Chapter
IL, upon petition filed by the officers
f that town. These proceedings coult
legally embrace only the lots whic4
rad been reserved in the part Of tht
tract above mentioned granted by tn
commonwealth to the Massachusett,
/ Medical Society which was within tn
Wilson Township, so the territory in
| luded in the tract on the west sid
,f Township Eight. Range Nine, beins
in the plantation of Elliottsville, is in
volved in the pending petition.
The second conveyance of lands with
in Township Eight, Range Nine, wa
a grant by the Commonwealth o
| Massachusetts to the heirs of William
Vaughn dated Jan. 25, 1914. of one-hal
township of land containing 11,52
| acres, which grant contained the fol
| owing provision:
"Conditioned, however, that sale
grantees their heirs and assigns shal
| lay out in said tracts four lots of 16"
acres each for the following uses: On
lot for the first settled minister; on
| lot for the use of the ministry; on
| lot for the use of the schools, and on
| 1T for the future appropriation of tn
General Court, said lots to average il
situation aud quality with the othel
and in said tract"
The third conveyance of lands with
| in Township s, Range 9, was the gran
| ny the commonwealth of Massachu
setts to the trustees of the Saco Ere,
| Bridge Fund dated Oct. %, 1929, of g
| rract of land surveyed by Tristlon
Johnson containing 4O40 acres in whic'
vas the folio -ir~ provisions:
"Conditicnef, !. '"~ ~''cr. that sai6
rrantees, the successors and assigns
shall lay or and reserve three lots O.
,s acres cNch for the following pur
| noses, viz: One lot for the use Of th'
| ninistry, one lot for the first settle
Minister his heirs and assigns, and on
ut for the use of the schools within
he township, said lots to average j,
ituatioa and quality with the land
| n said tract"
Township 8, Range was thus con-
nosed of the tract of land cornprisin
part of the grant of the common
aalth of Massachusetts Medical Soci
tv sit lated on the west side of tt
township, the tract of land conveye
h"lrs of William Vaughan, the trac'
land conveyed to the Saco Ere
| ridge Fund. and a traQt of land lyin
irectly south Of the Saco Free Bride
ant of sufficient width to make th
,wnship contain six square miles O.
>,o40 acres. known as the State tract
which was acquired by the State O
Nainc from the commonwealth of Mas
achusetts under the Separation act
| The State tract was surveyed by c.
ab Leavitt in 1880 and according t.
ris plan contained 1926 acres. 1t i
nparently the portion of the divisio'
nd allotment of lands between Main
nd Massachusetts made on the 2St
f Devember, 1922. described in tn
Irst division as follows:
"Also that part of Lot No. 8 in sal
1inth range which had not been cor
0ved. containing 4476 acres" But thu
ctual survey made subsequent to this
'ivision we may assume is more cor
rect as to the number of acres in tn
ract though leaving a deficiency in the
}creage of the township of 1850 acres
This may have resulted from the ex
fusion from the Leavitt survey OF
he part of the State tract covered by
'reat ponds within it's boundaries.
All the lands embraced in this town.
ship were granted while the resolve o.
,7Ss was the law governing the reser-
walton Of lands for public uses. except
the State tract. The law providing fo'
the reservation of 1000 acres of land
in every townshop suitable for settle
nent was enacted by Chapter 2S0. Sec
ton 8, of the Public Laws Of Maine
1924, and could not apply to prior
grants nor to those previously provid-
ed for because cntrolled by the Ian
guage of Paragraph Z of the Articles
of Separation, which provides: "AE
grants of land, franchises, immunities.
corporate or other rights, and all con-
tracts for, or grants of land not yet
located, which have been made or may
be made by said commonwealth, before
the separation Of said district shall
take place, having or to have effect
within the said district, shall continue
In full force, after the said district
shall become a separate state;" but it