The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-01-19
Liabilities Increase--In-
come Decreases
Annual Report of County Commits
si0ners Reveals the Fact.

crease of $5635.41, the income hav-
ing fallen off more than $4,000.
COUNTY ROADS.
During the year the commissioners
have taken the following action relat-
ing to the highways in the county:
Petition of selectmen of Athens to
define limits and for alteration of
highway; petition dismissed.
Petition of Brighton Manufacture
ing Co. ct ais for appointment of
agent to build highway in Harmony;
petition dismissed.
Petition of selectmen of Madison
and Scion for discontinuance of high
way; petition granted
Joint petition of W Y. Totman ct
ais to commissioners of kennebec and
Somerset counties for location of
highway in Fairfield and Clinton
(across Hinekley bridget petition
granted.
Petition of Wallace E. Marble ct ais
for alteration and dscontinuance of
highway in Harmony, petition grant
ed.
Petition of John F. Holman and l..
w. Foss, selectmen of Athens, for To-
cation of highway; petition granted.
Petition of l.. C. Forbus ct ais for
location and discontinuance of high
ways in Brighton; petition denied
with costs.
Petition of Arson f. Smith ct ais
for repair of highway in Palmyra; ;
petition dismissed.
We have also taken advantage of
the State road law, and there is due
from the State $3.50 This amount
has been expended in permanent i'm
provements on the roads in the plan
tations and unorganized townships
JAIL WORKSHOP.
The Jail workshop has been com
pleted during the year and the total
cost including the building of con
crete wall around Jail yard grading
etc, was $5601.2S.
HINCKLEY BRIDGE
The new bridge across the kenne-
bee river at Hinckley was opened tC
travel early in the summer, and has
proved a great benefit to the people
OF the section served. Regarding the
financing of the same the commits
sioners make the following recon-
mendation:
Under Chapter 231 of the Resolves
Of the Legislature of 1909, Somerset
county was authorized and require
{, raise the sum of eight Thousand
dollars for the aid OF the Hinckley
bridge This amount has been raised
j.. loan and paid to the treasurer OF
the Hnckley bridge commission, and
The county commissioners advise that
the sum of four thousand dollars bG
raised in the year 1911. and the same
amount in the year 1912. to pay this
loan.
SOLON- EAlBDEN BRIDGE.
The piers and abutments for the
Solon- Emblem bridge are already III
place, and this structure will be OPP
ened to the public early in the spring
Regarding the financing of this i'm
provement the report says
Under Chapter 234 of the Resolves
of the Legislature of 1909, Somerset
county was asked by the towns of
Scion and Enbden to contribute five
thousand dollars to aid the Scion and
Embden bridge, but owing to the fl
nancial condition of the county, the
county commissioners did not see lit
to contribute this amount from the
county treasurY and the towns OF
Scion and Embden advanced the
amount of five thousand dollars
which the county was asked to con
tribute, and the county commission
ers now recommend that the sum of
five thousand dollars be raised, TWEEN
ty-five hundred in the year 1911, and
twenty-five hundred in the year 1912
to reimburse the towns of Scion and
Embden.
FINANCIAL CONDITION OF SOM
ERSET COUNTY.
AS compared with the beginning
of the year, the net liabilities of the
county have increased more than
five thousand dollars. while the in
terest bearing obligations outstand-
ing have gone up nearly ten thous-
and dollars. The statement in de-
tail is:
Resources.
aaisfDw =. INV d n
Due from towns and plan
tations, county tax of 1910 $5,249G2
Due from plantation, State
and County and Road tax
of 1905, 1906 and 1907 -. 294.44
Due from State of Maine,
County tax on unincor
porated places, 1910 -. lO,26067
Due from same for 1909 -. 558.S6
Due from land owners,
county road taxes in un-