The independent-reporter., 1910-12-29
NOTICE.
STATE OF MAINE.

Somerset, SIS.
Court of County Commissioners.
Notice is hereby given. that on petit
tion of the Somerset Hallway Com
pany, a corporation existing under the
laws of the State of Maine, located and
having its principal place of business
land, and State of Maine, dated July
II, 1910, and filed July 20. 1910. al
leging
uses, for a changed location of its said
railway In the Town of Madison, in
said County of Somerset, opposite
Abenaquis Mill of Hollingsworth &
Whitney Company. certain lands in
That the said location is fully set
forth and shown in a decree of the
Railroad Commissioners of said State
of Maine, which said decree, togeth-
er with certificate containing de-
finite description of the land so taken
furnished your petitioner by said
by a. map or plan on an appropriate
scale and profile on the relative scales
of profile paper In common use, dated
March 5th, 1910, signed by Theo. L.
Dunn, Chief Engineer, made April
26th, 1910, were filed with the Clerk
of the Courts for said Somerset Coun-
ty May 18th, 1910;
That all of the lands necessary for
said changed location have been ac-
quired by your petitioner except the
westerly portion of lot owned by Fer
dinand d. Small of Camas. in the state
of Washington, described as follows A
strip of land off the westerly end OF
lot numbered II on plan of house lots
as laid out by Snow & Humphreys,
being recorded in Somerset County
Registry of Deeds in Plan Book g.
Page 6, said strip being thirty-nine
and seven -tenths feet wide on
Edwards StreeD and twenty-one and
two-tenths feet wide on the Southerly
end
That your petitioner has been un-
able to agree with the said Ferdinand
D. Small as to the necessity for taking
said land and that he does not consent
thereto
That the said Railroad Commission
ers by their said decree found that the
and described above was necessar.
to be taken and held for the reason
appropriate business of the corpora
tion." and praying that after due no
tice to the owner or said proper'
be the owner thereof, of a time and
place for hearing on said petition. thai
said County Commissioners will esti-
mate the damages to which said owner
is entitled for said property so taker
in pursuance of the requirements OF
law
The County Commissioners, after
giving due notice thereof as required
DY law, nleQ, III their DtctlIlbei 1STH
A. D. 1910, their report, as follows:
STATE OF MAINE.
Somerset ss.
Court of County Commissioners
December Term. A. D. 1910.
Pursuant to the foregoing petition OF
the Somerset Railway Company, and
order of court thereon, We, the County
Commissioners for the County of Som
erset, met at the time and place and
for the purposes designated In said
order, to wit, at the railroad station
Madison in said county, on the Thrift
eth day of August A. d. 1910, at eleven
O'Clock in the forenoon at which time
and place, 1t being then and there sat
isfactorily proved that the notice
named in said order had been duly and
requirements of said order had beer
fully complied with, we viewed the
land alleged to have been taken by
said Somerset Railway Company ir
the petition aforesaid. and gave
hearing on said petition. and after a
and arguments to us presented. and
having maturely considered the same
we were of the opinion and adiudRed
and do hereby adtudge and determine
that the said Ferdinand d. Small is
entitled to receive the sum of one hun
paid by him bv the said Somerset
Railway Company
Dated at Skowhegan the thirteenth
day of December, A. D. 1910.
GEORGE T. TIBBETTS,
HENRY CROWELL.
GRANVILLE D. PERKINS
County Commissioners of
Somerset County"
Attest: w. T. sEEKINs, Clerk.