The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1920-11-18
STATE OF MAINE
somerset County,
Supreme Judicial Court,
January Term. A. ID. 1921

FORREST H. 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 H. 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
roceedngs under the provisions of
Section % of Chapter of the Revised
Statutes of Maine.
IL. The Commonwealth of Massa-
chusetts. by deed of a special commit
fee of said Commonwealth, acting I'M
der authority of the General Court
thereof, a copy of which is attached
to this petition and marked Exhibit
A." on January IS, 1898, conveyed to
one William Bingham certain lands then
belonging to said Commonwealth, COM
prising in all one hundred thirtytw
thousand. five hundred forty-one Q32,-
SAD acres. lying in the County of Lin
coin and Commonwealth of Massachu-
sets. including in said tract all the
territory now comprised within the
limits of Township Number One, Range
Three, b. X. p w. K. r. otherwise
known as Carrying Place Township in
tho Ceunty of Somerset and State of
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 1920 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 and
situation with the other lots of the
Respective townships. These reserva-
tioAs were in accordance with an act
of said General Court of said Common
wealth approved March rs, 1875, re-
curing such reservations in all convey
ancss Of public lots thereafter to be
made.
". Under the provisions of Para
graph 7, Section / of the Articles of
Separation between Maine and Massa-
chusstts, adopted June 10, 1919. the
and duties of the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts in reference to such re-
sesyes had.
v. Included in said lands so con-
vsysA to said William Bingham is an
uReFHa cd township known as Town
ship Number One, Range Three, B. X.
P W. K r., otherwise known as Carry
ing Place Township, in said County of
SeAspNst containing ten thousand one
hundred ffty-one (10.15D acres. and
by virtue of the aforementioned legis-
latisn the title of the successors in in
tsrsst Of said william Bingham to
lands derived from him and situated in
saiA Carrying Place Township are sub
jest - q reservation of such portion of
twelve hundred and eighty U280) acres
of land as ten thousand one hundred
hfty-sAs Qo,15D acres would bear to
swaship or tract six 81 miles square.
p. BarlsiEh. then Land Agent of the
State Of Maine. by virtue of tho auth
GRITTY then vested in him by law con-
vsysA to Joseph Clark of Carratunk in
Co., nat tot lot NJ
lana ). 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
saia state being conveyed by said deed
whether said lot had then been located
OF net, said lot SO conveyed contain
ing enc hundred twenty-three CPD
acres more or less. copy of said deco
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 net disposed of by any authority
of law has ever been lawfully located
In ssveralty for the purposes expressed
in said conveyance to William Bing-
ham.
WHEREFORE. your petitioner re-
spsctfully requests this Honorable
Court. after due notice and hearing, to
appoint three disinterested persons and
issue to them warrant under the seal
of this Court requiring them as soon
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 OF
october. A. y. 1870.
FORREST II. COLBY,
Land Agent of the State Of Maine.