St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-04-24
No 26S.
STATE OF VERMONT.
Public Service Commission.
Order of Nofaaa

OE0GE OL NOTICE.
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
Whereas there has been filed with
the Clerk of the Public Service Com
mission a copy of the petition of a
majority of the legal voters in town
meeting in the town of Peacham, in
the County of Caledonia and State of
Vermont, and residing within the ter
ritorial limits of the proposed village
of Peacham, said copy being duly GER
titled by the Clerk of said town of
Peacham, and being in the words and
figures following:
"To the Public Service Commission of
the State of Vermonta
We, the undersigned, as being a ma
GRITTY of the legal voters in Town
Meeting and residing in the Town of
Peacham, Caledonia County and State
of Vermont and residing within the
territory limits of the proposed village
of Peacham, do hereby petition your
honorable body to charter and estab-
lish a village corporation within the
limits hereinafter described, and the
inhabitants thereof to be known and
described as the village of Peacham,
in accordance with the provisions of
The limits and boundaries of the
proposed village are described as fol-
lows:
All that tract or parcel of land sit
uated in the Town of Peacham, Coun-
ty of Caledonia and State of Vermont,
bounded and described as follows:
Commencing at a point on the easter
ly side of the highway from Peacham
Corner to Danville where the land Of
Albert r. Petrie joins the land of
Moses w. Martin; thence North seven
ty-one degrees East; nineteen rods
and eleven feet 6ss along the sOHtheTiy
to large elm tree standing on the
line between Moses w. Martins land
and that of r. ]. Mackay; thence
across r. j. Mackay's land forty-one
degrees East a SOnfh
side of the highway to East Peacham
and on the line between the land Of
G. A. Kenerson and that Of Laura
Palmer, thirty-one rods; thence along
Laura Palmer's land; South thirty de-
grees East, twenty-seven rods to
stake in the fence along Lydia Stro-
bridges land; thence across Lydia Stro-
bridges land South five degrees West,
thirty-seven rods and eleven feet to
stake at the end of the fence be-
tween Charles F. Williams land and
that of Andrew Richie and Alex
Warden; thence along the line be-
tween said Williams and Richie and
Warden; South two degrees West
fourteen rods to a post at corner of
Williams and Richie and Wardens
lands; thence across Charles +. VIII
liams' land South twenty degrees
West twenty-five rods and four feet
to another tract owned by Ritchie
and Warden; thence in the same d.
rection across Richie and Warden's
land six rods to an elm tree beside
the highway leading to Harrison Nc
Lachlin'S; thence Southerly along the
highway to McLachlin's twenty-four
rods to the southerly bounds Of Lor-
en- G. Kidder's land; thence due West
along Kidder's south line twelve rods
to the center of the highway to South
Peacham; thence North seven degrees
East fourteen rods and seven feet
along said road; thence West eighty
four degrees North, thirty rods along
haf ~ N era
and another tract owned by Richie
& Warden to the land Of Elizabeth
Parker; thence along the line between
Elizabeth Parker's and John Gracy'm
North seven degrees East, twenty
rods and seven feet to Milton Far
rows land; thence North forty-ntne
degrees West across Elizabeth PARK
feet to the land of L. r. Varnum;
thence South tWenty-three degrees !
West six rods to the land Of Walter
degrees West along the line between |
Walter NJ Blanchard and L. r. Var !
mum twenty-one rods and eight feet /
to the Northeast corner of the town /
line of the cemetery to the highway
twenty three rods and nine feet,
thence across the highway and the |
Common" so called, North thirty
fourteen feet to a post in the fence
about Archie Steele's land near the
thence across Arcnle
5teele's land North forty-three and
1ne-haIf degrees East, forty-eight
DDS to a stake in the line of the
boundary between Archie Steele's and
Charles A. Bunker; thence In the
Iame direction across the land OF
Charles A. Bunker nineteen rods to
large elm tree in the boundary line
between Bunker's land and land or
: A. Kenerson; thence nine rods due
Jorth to q stake in the land of O. A.
zenerson, nine rods from said elm
rec: thence North seventy degrees
East twenty-one rods to the place OF
'egfnninR.
The powers and functions which
hall be conferred upon and exercig-
d by the proposed village under the
PROVISIONS OF this petition shall be
United to the following:
I. To be a body corporate. to have
seal and TO sue and be sued.
2. To have and organize an elect
We government administered by the
Glowing officers. A urQafdeut fhran