Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1909-02-03
| To the Honorable Court Of County Commits.
sioners for the County of Hancock and State

To the Honorable Court Of County Commits
sioners for the County Of Hancock and State
d EsPEOTFULLY represent the under
III signed, the Municipal Officers Of the
town OF Mount Desert in said County of Han.
cock, to wit. the Selectmen Of said Town, that
the true boundaries OF a certain highway and
of a town way situated within said Town
of Mount Desert, are doubtful, uncertain or
lost; that said highway was duly and Legally
the Clerks Office Of your Honorable Court,
and that the said town way was duly and
thereof thereof in The Cleats dce Of said Town Of
Mount Desert; that the present description Of
said highway and Of said town way is as fol-
The highway leading from somesville in
said town Of Mount Desert to Northeast Har-
Dor in said Town which begins at the juno
tion OF said highway with the County Road
leading from Town Hill in the town Of Eden
to said Somesviile; thence easterly across the
bridge at the head OF Somes Sound to Nor
woods corner. SO called; theme in a south
erly direction to the end Of said highway,
near Northeast Harbor. as located by the
County Commissioners of said County; thence
from the point where said highway ends over
the town way laid out by the Municipal OFF,
GERS OF said Town OF Mount Desert, aud there
after accepted by said Town to point in said
town way near the Clarke Road, so called.
WHEREFORE your petitioners respect
fully petition this Honorable Court to give
such notice as is required for the location of
new ways; proceed to hear the parties, ex-
anime said highway and town way and locate
and define their limits and boundaries by
placing stakes on side lines at all apparent
OF not more than one hundred feet an. cause
duraole monuments to be erected at the
angles thereof, and in general, 10 do and per
form all other acts necessary and in conformi-
ty to the Revised Statutes OF the State of
Maine as provided in Section II o. Chapter 20
OF said Statutes together with acts amenda-
Mount Desert, Maine, Dec. 81, A. d. 1908.
GEo. 4 SAVAGE.
WARREN Il. WHITMoRE,
JOSEPH w. SMALL,
Municipal officers of the Town
of Mount Desert.
STATE OF MAINE.
HANCOCK ss.:-Court of County Commits
sioners, January Term. A. D. 1909.
sioners being satisfied that the petitioners are
respon Bile, that an inquiry into the merits is
expedieut. and that the petitioners ought to
be heard touching the matter set forth in
their petition;
Order-That the County Commissioners
meet at the junction of the highway, lead
ing from Somesville to Northeast Harbor
and the County road leading from Town
Hill to Somesvil on Wednesday, the
10th day of March, A. ID. 1903, at 8 O'Clock
A. NJ, and thence proceed to view the route
mentioned in said petition. Immediately after
which view. hearing of the parties and wit
nesses will be had at some convenient place
in the vicinity, aud 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 afore-
said be given to all persons and corporations
interested by serving an attested copy of the
petition and this order thereon, upon the
Clerk of the Town OF Mount Desert, like
copy upon George A. Savage one OF the Pc
titioners, and by posting up attested copies as
aforesaid in three public places in said
town thirty days at least before the time ap-
pointed for said view. and by publishing the
petition and order thereon. three weeks sue
cessively in the Ellsworth American, q news
paper published at Ellsworth. in the (louut .
of Hancock, the first publication to be thirty
days at least before the time of said view that
all persons and corpora ions interested may
attend and be heard If they think fit.
Attest:-JoHN F. KNowLToN, Clerk.
A true copy of the petition and order thereon
/ Attest:-JoHN F. KEowLToN. Clerk.