Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-25
TERRITORY ABOUT SECTION INVOLVED

fast, where a commission vas an
pointed to Investigate the merits Of
the case
The commission reported, in effect,
as follows:
The subscribers Commissioners ap-
pointed by the supreme judicial court
hetd at Belfast in July 1871 to ascertain
ana determine the line or lines in dispute
between the town of Palermo in the
County Of Waldo and the town of Wash
lngton IN the County of Lincoln and the
luflSdietlonai limits of the same. gave
due notice to the Selectmen and agents
of said towns to meet them at the house
OF Bickford G. Mathews Esquire in Lib
crty on the 9th day of August inst al
clock in the forenoon, at which time
and place the agents of said towns To
wit John Greedy of Palermo and Mark
Hatch OF Washington appeared in behalf
OF said towns and exhibited their several
acts of incorpation to wit, the act Ia in
corporate the town of Palermo passed
June 23rd 1901 and the act of incorpora-
February 9th. 1911 The Commissioners
learning that the agents of both towns
agreed that a beech tree marked &c
1909 was the tree and admitted corner
bounds OF Washington at its most north
erly point. proceeded with said agents
and others interested TO said bound upon
which they found in addition to the
mafEs e 1879 the figures and letters
Isle Up 1873 w 1921" etc and marked
thereon an additional CISCO on the west
ern aud opposite side of the other SINH
lar mark. They then commenced running
and measuring the line from said beech
tree between Palermo and Washington
and found the course mentioned in the
acts of Incorporation of each town South
twenty t29D degrees west, to be
south thirtyfve f35D degrees west. They
run and measured the line the latter
course three hundred and eighty
f3S5l rods and come To a stone monument
a
town of Palermo as their southeriy cor
ner boundS-but as this line i'm the act
of Incorporation of Putnam, now WASH
inston, is described as being five hundred
and eighty-six t5Sh) rods in length and
terminate at yellow birch tree marked
LISBON" We examined that bound and
found a birch stump and proof of its be-
ing the stump of said birch tree, with
said mark. which was to their Satisfac-
ton the termination of the line referred
to in the act Incorporating Putnam. It
theu became necessary to decide which
of the two corners was the true corner
of Palermo and TO ascertain which. We
went To a stone monument which was
established as the corner of the towns of
town Plantation. and erected in 1898 as
admitted by the agents of Palermo and
individuals present from China and Pat
ricktowH Plantation, and having aScer-
tanned by running the line about three
miles westerly of said monument on the
line between China and Windsor, that
Iiltit was a AdiidlIel OF compass OF Two
and half t29 degrees from the original
course, We run from the stone monument
at the corner of said four towns south
sixty-fiNe 1861 degrees East to the line
of Washington, and there put up Il
stake and stones thirty rods southerly of
the stone monument erected by the town
of Palermo. We then traced the line
from the birch stump North SiXty-threc
and one half tS3al degrees west. | found
that a line in that direction if extended
the length of the southerly line OF "a
lermo would terminate one hundred and
forty Qi0l rods southerly of that stone
monument, and established corner of
said four towns and if run North sixty
five f65l degrees West which is parallel
to the line run down from the stone
monument te the stake and stones, and
the same course of the line which was
North siXty-seven and one hdlf t6tD de-
grccs west or as described in the act of
of incorporation of Putnam West ~ de
grees north the termination of ii would
have been as far from the stone rnonu-
ment at the corner OF the Tour towns, as
the birch stump is from the stake and
stones set up by us as the southeasteriy
corner of Palermo. We therefore una
that there is Il gore of land or a piece
of land of whatever shape 1t may be ~
ing between the southerly line of Paler-
mo and the northery line of Washing
ton, of course not included IN either
town.
BY the power aud authority in us vest
ed by law and said commission we here
by decide and determine that the only
line which separates the towns OF Pa
Iermo and Washington is the line before
described to wit. beginning at said beech
tree marked SC 1873" etc. and running
thence south tWcnty-nine (29 degrees
west, formerly, now south thirty-fve t-'
degree West, -four hundred and fifteen
Cll5l rods to a stake and stones at which
we established the southerk corner OF
Palermo.
Witness our hands this thirtleth day Of
August in the year 1871
SAM'L. NJ. POND
ISAAC ABBOT