The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1920-10-21
STATE OF MAINE
SOMERSET COUNTY
SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT
SEPTEMBER TERM, A. ID. 1920
Forrest II. Colby, Land Agent. Petition
er for Location of Public Lots in
Pleasant Ridge Plantation

To the Supreme Judicial Court within
and for the County of Somerset;
Forrest II Colby Of Bingham in said
county Of Somerset respectfully repre-
scents
/ The petitioner Is Land Agent Of
the State Of Maine. duly appointed and
qualified as such; and Institutes these
proceedings under the provisions u
Section % Of Chapter or the Revised
Statutes of Maine
IT, The Commonwealth Of Massa-
chusetts. by deed of special commit
tee of said Commonwealth, acting un-
der authority of the General Court
thereof. a copy of which is attached 20
this petition and marked Exhibit A."
on January Is. 1873. conveyed 30 one
William Bingham certain lands then
belonging to said common"ealth. COM
prising in all one hundred thirty-t two
thousand, five hundred fOrty-onc
/ G32,541) acres, lying In the County q
Lincoln and Commonwealth OF Massa-
chusetts. including in said tract all the
territory now comprised within the
limits of Township Number one. Range
Two. b. *. Z. v X. r.. otherwise
known as Pleasant Ridge Plantation
in the County Of Somerset and State
III BY the terms Of said deed there
We're reserved in each township or
tract of six miles square. four lots Of
three hundred and twenty $500 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 fu-
ture appropriation Of said General
Court said lots to average in good
ness and situation with the other lots
Of the respective townships. These
reservations We're in accordance with
an act Of said General Court Of said
Commonwealth approved March &c,
liAN, requiring such reservations i'm all
eonyeYanees of public lots thereafter
to be made.
" Under the provisions of Para
graph !. Section /, of the Articles of
separation between Maine and Massa-
chusetts. adopted June 10, 1919. the
state of Maine succeeded to the rights
and duties of the Commonwealth Of
Massachusetts,, in reference to such re
served land.
Y. \ portion of the aforementioned
tract so conveyed to William Bingham
to Wit thirteen thousand, four hundred
and thirty-siX Q3.436) acres thereof
was duly incorporated as a plantation
under the laws of the State of Maine
under the name of Pleasant Ridge
Plantation October Il. 1910. and there
by and by virtue of the aforementioned
legislation, the title of the successors
in interest to said William Bingham to
lands derived from him and situated
in said Pleasant Ridge Plantation was
subject to a reservation of such por-
ton of twelve hundred and eighty
/ 028o) acres of land as thirteen thou
sand four hundred thirty-six G3,436)
acres would bear to a township or
tract six miles square.
VI on October 2S 1878, Parker p.
Burleigh, then Land Agent of the State
of Maine, by virtue of the authority
then vested in him by law conveyed to
Abner Coburn of SkoWhegan in said
County, one hundred eighty
GSO acres of land in common and UNI
divided in said Pleasant Ridge Planta-
ton. being that portion of said reserv-
ed land in said Plantation which had
been reserved for the future DISPOSE
ton of the Legislature copy of said
deed being herennto annexed and
marked Exhibit b"
VII. on March Il 1905, Edgar E
Ring. then Land Agent of the State of
Maine, by virtue of the authority vest
ed in him by an act of the Legisla-
ture of Maine, approved March 8, 1905.
entitled. AN act in relation to the land
reserved for public use in the Planta-
, ton of Pleasant Ridge" which act is
chapter les of the Private & Special
Laws Of 1905. conveyed to Benjamin
p J. Weston of Madison and Levi w.
Weston of Skowhegan in said County
of Somerset, certain parts and portions
of the lands reserved for public uses In
said Plantation of Pleasant Ridge, be
ing such proportion of five hundred
siXty-one (56D acres as eight thousand
five hundred (S.500) acres then main
tanned to thirteen thousand, four hun
dred thirty-siX 13.436) acres. n copy of
said deed being hereunto annexed and
marked Exhibit c"
VIII Neither the portion of said
reserved lands so conveyed as afore-
said in common and undivided, nor the
balance of the acreage of said reserv-
ed lands not disposed of by any author
itY of law, has ever been lawfully To-
Gated in severalty for the purposes eX
pressed in said conveyance to William
Bingham.
WHEREFORE. your petitioner re-
spectfullY requests this Honorable
Court, after due notice and hearing, to
appoint three disinterested persons
aud issue to them n warrant under the
seal of this Court requiring them as
soon as may be to locate in separate
lots the acreage of said Pleasant Ridge
/ Plantation 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
Eennehef this third day of september
\. L. 1aeo
FORREST II. COLBY,