Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-09
STATE HOUSE.
Railroad Comrs. Assign
Hearings on Two Petitions.
Annual Franchise Tax on Cor
porations Is Now Due.
Mrs. 6etcheII Will Soon Petition
Governor for Pardon.
STATE HOUSE CALENDAR.
Next Meeting Of Governor and Council
Tuesday, Aug. 81, at $50 A. M.

Announcement was made Saturday
at the office of the Board of Railroad
Commissioners that the board would
be in session at the Lafayette Hotel in
Portland at 10 A. M. on Thursday, Aug.
IL. for the purpose of giving a hearing
on the petition of the municipal officers
Of the town of Pownal, Cumberland
county, asking the board to determine
whether the highway from Durham
to Gray, at West PoWnal, So-called,
shah be permitted to cross the track
OF the Atlantic & st. Lawrence Rail-
road at grade or not, and the manner
and conditions of crossing the same
and in what manner the expense of
building and maintaining SO much of
said way as is within the limits of said
railroad shall be paid or apportioned
bE~feen said company and said town.
che petition represents that the coun
sty commissioners of Cumberland coun-
fty on Dec. %, 1908, on the petition of
Harlan B. True, William A. Brown and
Frank L-obdell, then selectmen of Pow
nal, did determine and were satisfied
that public convenience and necessity
required an alteration and change Of
grade in the existing highway from
Pownal, where said highway intersects
the Grand Trunk Railway Cos. track,
viz, the location and right of way OF
the Atlantic & St. Lawrence Railroad
Co., and that public convenience and
necessity required that said new lay
ing out of said way be constructed
across the location, below the grade of
said Grand Trunk Railway track: and
cod
way when laid out will be through and
across certain land and right of way
of the Atlantic d st. Lawrence Rail
road Co, used for station purposes,
and did therefore suspend proceedings
and thereafterwards on the same day
filed their petition with the railroad
commissioners that the said board
might determine whether or not public
necessity and convenience required
that said way be laid out as determin-
ed by the said county commissioners in
accordance with the statute in such
case made and provided.
1t further represents that afterWard,
on April q, 1909, after due notice and
hearing, the railroad commissioners
decided that public necessity required
the taking of said land, as determined
by the said county commissioners, for
the purpose of changing said highway;
that pursuant to said adjudication,
finding an order of the county COM
missiOners and of the adjudication or
the railroad commissioners. the county
commissioners on Feb. 1905, proceed
ed to make the said alteration of Local
ton and change of grade in said way;
that the county commissioners duly
filed a correct return of their dolngs,
accompanied by an accurate plan OF
said way at their next regular session
after said hearing, which session was
held at Portland on Jan. 5. 1909, and
placed the same on file in the custody
of their clerk, and continued the case
to their next regular term, and there
being no appeal from said location
of said highway and no notice of ap-
peal by any person aggrieVed by the
estimate of damages by the said coun-
ty commissioners on or before the third
day of their next regular term of said
board, to wit, on or before June ).
1909, said proceedings were duly closed
and recorded. and became effectual.
1t was also announced that the rail-
road commissioners would be in SEES
sion at the store of Whitcomb Haynes
g. Co, at Ellsworth Falls at II A. NJ,
Thursday, Aug. 10, for the purpose of
giving a hearing on the petition of the
municipal officers of the city of Els
worth relative to the erection of rail-
road crossing gates. The petition
states that the petitioners deem it nec-