The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1920-11-25
STATE OF MAINE
Somerset County,
Supreme judicial Court,
January Term, a. ID. 1927

FORREST II. COLBY, LAND AGENT.
PETITIONER FOR LOCATION OF
PUBLIC LOTS IN CARRYING PLACE
TOWNSHIP
To the Supreme Judicial Court within
and for the County of Somerset.
Forrest II. Colby of Bingham in said
County of Somerset, respectfully repre-
sents:
The petitioner is Land Agent Of
the State of Maine duly appointed and
qualified as such; and Institutes these
proceedings under the provisions OF
Section % of Chapter of the Revised
Statutes of Maine.
H. The Commonwealth of Massa-
chusetts, by deed of a special commit
tee of said CommonW ealth. acting I'M
der authority OF the General Court
thereof copy of which Is attached
to this petition and marked Exhibit
A." on January Is. 1893 conveyed to
one william Bingham certain lands then
belonging to said Commonwealth COM
prisng in all one hundred thirty-two
thousand, five hundred fortY-one C132,-
54D acres. lying in the County of Lin
coin and Commonwealth of Massaehu-
sets, including in said tract all the
territory now comprised within the
limits of Township Number one, Range
Three. b. X. +. w X. r. otherwise
known as Carrying Place Township in
the County of Somerset and State or
Maine.
III. BY the terms of said deed there
were reserved in each township or tract
of six miles square, four lots of three
hundred and twenty (320) acres each,
one for the first settled minister, one
for the use of the ministry. one for the
use of schools and one for the future
appropriation of said General Court
Said lots to average in goodness ana
situation with the other lots of the
RESPECTIVE townships. These reserYa-
tions were in accordance with an act
Of Canpr91 pf H.
wealth approved March IS, 1886. re-
curing such reservations in all convey
ances of public lots thereafter to be
made
". Under the provisions of Para
graph 7, Section l of the Articles of
Separation between Maine and Massa-
chusetts. adopted June II. 1919, the
State of Maine succeeded to the rights
and duties of the Commonwealth Of
Massachusetts, in reference TO such re-
served land.
V. Included in said lands so con-
veyed to said William bingham is an
unorganized township known as Town
ship Number one, Range Three, b. *.
p. w. K. r.. otherwise known as Carry
ing Place Township, in said County of
Somerset containing ten thousand one
hundred fifty-one d0,15D acres. and
by virtue of the aforementioned legis-
lation the title of the successors in in
terest of said William Bingham to
lands derived from him and situated in
said Carrying Place Township are sub
ject to a reservation of such portion of
twelve hundred and eighty (12SO) acres
of land as ten thousand one hundred
ffty-one G0,15D ceres would bear to
a township or tract six miles square.
VI. On November 90. 1875, Parker
p. Burleigh, then Land Agent of the
State of Maine, by virtue of the auth
GRITTY then vested in him by law con-
veyed to Joseph Clark of Carratunk in
said County of Somerset a certain lot of
land in said Carrying Place Township
being the lot reserved by the Common
wealth of Massachusetts for the future
DISPOSITION of the legislature and since
transferred to this State, the right of
said State being conveyed by said deed
whether said lot had then been located
or not said lot so conveyed contain
ing one hundred twenty-three G23)
acres more or less. a copy of said deed
being hereunto annexed and marked
Exhibit B"
VII Neither the portion of said re-
served lands so conveyed as aforesaid
in common and undivided. nor the bal
ance of the acreage of said reserved
lands not disposed of by any authority
of law, has ever been lawfully located
in severalty for the purposes expressed
in said conveyance to William Bling
ham.
WHEREFORE. your petitioner re-
spectfully requests this Honorable
Court, after due notice and hearing, to
appoint three DISTINGUISHED persons and
issue to them warrant under the seal
of this Court requiring them as 500 i
as may be to locate in separate lots
the acreage of said Carrying Place
Township reserved for the purposes
aforesaid and designate the use for
which each lot is so reserved and To-
Gated, such lots to be of average quail
ity with the residue of lots therein.
Dated at Augusta in the County OF
Kennebec, this twenty-seventh day or
October A. D. 1920
EO3R EST II. COLBY.