St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-05-01
STATE OF VERMONT.
Public Service Commission.
Order of Notice.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
Whereas there has been fled with
the Clerk of the Public Service Com
mission 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
hgures following:
ITO the Public Service Commission of
the State of Vermont:
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
Act Number lis of the laws of 1910.
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,- Ceun-
ty of Caledonia and State of Vermont,
.
Commencing at 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 along the Southerly
boundary of Moses w Martins land
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 to a stake on the South
side of the highway to East Peacham
and on the line between the land Of
@. A. Kenerson and that of Laura
Palmer, thirty-one rods; thence along
the line between G. A. Kenerson's and
Laura Palmer's land; South thirty de-
grees East, twenty-seven rods to
stake in the fence along Lydia Stro-
bridges land; thenceacross Lydia Stro-
bridges land South five degrees West,
thirty-seven rods and eleven feet to
a 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
fourteen rods to a post at corner of
Williams and Richie and Warden's
lands; thence across Charles f. VIII
1iams' land South twenty degrees
West twenty rods and four feet
to another tract owned by Richie
and Warden thence in the same d.
rection across Richie and Warden's
land six rods to elm tree beside
the highway leading to Harrison Nc
Lachlin's; thence Southerly along the
highway to McLachlin's twentyfour
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
the line between land of John Gracy
and another tract owned by Ritchie
e Warden to the land of Elizabeth
Parker; thence along the line between
Elizabeth Parker's and John Gracy's
North seven degrees East. twenty
rods and seven feet to Milton Far
degrees West across Elizabeth Park
er's land twenty-five rods and twelve
feet to the land of L. r. Varnum;
thence South twenty-three degrees
west six rods to the land of Walter
N. Blanchard: thence North sixty-two
degrees West along the line between
Walter N. Blanchard and L. r. Var
mum twenty-one rods and eight feet
to the Northeast corner of the town
cemetery: thence along the easterly
line of the cemetery to the highway
twenty three rods and nine feet.
thence across the highway and the
Common" so called, North thirty
eight degrees West thirteen rods and
fourteen feet to post in the fence
about Archie Stee1e's land near the |
schoo1house; thence across Archie
Steele's land North forty-three and |
one-ha1f degrees East, forty-eieht |
rods to a stake in the line OF the |
boundary between Archie Steele's and
Charles A. Bunker: thence in the |
same direction across the land Of
Charles a. Bunker nineteen rods to |
a large elm tree in the boundary line |
between Bunker's land and land Of |
a. A. Kenerson: thence nine rods due |
North to a stake in the land Of @. A |
Kenerson, nine rods from said elm |
tree: thence North seventy degrees
Fast twenty-one rods to the place Of
BEGINNING.
The powers and functions which |
shall be conferred upon and exercis- |
ed by the proposed village under the |
provisions Of this petition shall be |
limited to the following:
1. To be a body corporate, TO have |
a seal and to sue and be sued.
2. To have and organize an elect /
i've government administered by the |
following officers: A president, three |