Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-08-25
To the Honorable Board of Railroad
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To the Honorable Board Of Railroad
Commissioners of Maine:
We, the undersigned Municipal Officers
of the town of Pittsfield in the county of
fully represent that said Municipal Off
GERS have been duly petitioned to lay out
a town way to connect Merrimac Street
with Highland Avenue in said town OF
way when laid out is to be bounded as
follows: beginning on the easterly side
of Merrimac Street at the northwest cor
ner of land of S. NJ. Raymond and on the
Southerly side of the right of way of the
Maine Central Railroad Company; thence
northerly across said right Of way of the
Maine, Central Railroad Company 10 feet
to the southwest corner of land of
line of Highland Avenue; thence westerly
on the north side of the right of way of
Railroad Company 3l@ rods to the wester-
ly side of Highland Avenue. thence
southerly across the right of way of said
Railroad Company 10 feet to the wester-
by line of Merrimac Street and northeast
corner of land of S. NJ. Raymond; thence
easterly on the southerly side of the
right of way of said Railroad Company
3i9 rods to the place of beginning: that
in accordance with said petition said
Municipal Officers gave written notice of
their intention of laying out said high,
be held at the Selectmen's Office in
Union Hall in said town of Pittsfield on
the thirteenth day of August, A. D. 1910.
at ten o'clock in the forenoon: that said
notices We're duly posted and copy of
said notice duly served in hand on B.
f. Cornell. station agent of said Maine
Central Railroad Company in said town
of Pittsfield: said posting the notices and
service aforesaid all being done seven
days before said date of hearing, and on
said date of hearing said Municipal OH
GERS met at their office in Union Hall in
said Pttsfield, and after hearing the
parties and the evidence then and there
presented, did then and there determine
that public convenience and necessity re-
quire that h town way should be laid out
to connect said Merrimac Street with
said Highland Avenue and bounded and
described as above set forth. and that
the. crossing of the right of way of the
Maine Central Railroad COMPANY should
be by an overhead bridge; 1t further APP
pearing at said hearing that the way
when laid out crosses the land and right
of way of said Maine Central Railroad
Company used for station purposes; and
said hearing was thereupon suspended
and was adjourned to meet at the same
place at the same hour on the seven
teentlr day of September. 1910. for the
provided your Honorable Board should
after notice and hearing determine that
such way to be laid out would be a pub
lie convenience and necessity.
WHEREFORE your petitioners make
application and request your Honorable
Board upon notice and hearing to deter
mine whether public convenience and
necessity require the laying out of said
town way.
Dated this thirteenth day of August, A.
ID. 1910
S. IT. FROST,
T.. +. PENNELL,
C. F. SEEKINS,
Municipal officers of the
Town of Pittsfield.
ON THE FOREGOING PETITION,
ORDERED. That the petitioner cause
to be published true copy of said petit
ton, and this order of notice thereon,
three days successfully in the Daily
kennebec Journal. newspaper published
at Augusta, in the county of Kennebec.
the first publication in said paper to be
at least five days before Tuesday the
thirtieth day of August. A. ID. 1910, on
which day the Board of Railroad Com
missioners will be in session at the Sc
lectmen's Office, Union Hall. in Pitts
noon for the purposes indicated in said
petition.
Said petitioner shall send copies Of the
foregoing petition and order to Mr.. Nor
Iis Mcdonald, Vice-Presdent and Gem
eral Manager of the Maine Central Rail
road Company. five days at least before
the date 81 said hearing.
ELMER P. SPOFFORD,
Chairman for the Board of
Railroad Commissioners of Maine
Dated this nineteenth day Of August
A. ID. 1910.
A true copy.
Attest GEO. F. GIDDINGS. Clerk
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