Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1922-07-12
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.


To the County Commissioners of the
County of Hancock, State of Maine:
The undersigned real estate owners
voters, residents and taxpayers of the
town of Mariaville, in said county and
State, respectfully represent to your
honorable board as follows:
That under date of June 8. A. D. 1922.
application in writing by more than
ten voters of said town of Mariaville
was made to the selectmen of said
town to call meeting of the inhabi-
tants of said town qualified to vote in
town affairs, and to insert in the war
rant for such meeting the following
articles viz:
% To see if the inhabitants of said
town of Mariavllle qualified to vote in
town affairs will vote to discontinue so
much of the present town way leading
across Jordans bridge, so-called, as
lies between the west line of the DR..
Morrison farm and the center of Union
river.
(2)To see if said inhabitants will
vote to discontinue all of the present
town way leading north from said Jor-
dams bridge road to the old Charles
Silsby place.
That in accordance with said ap-
plication, such call for such meeting
was duly made and such meeting was
duly held in said town of Mariaville
on Saturday the 18th day of June.
1922, and by ballot duly taken at said
meeting, the disturbances submit
ted under both article GD and article
t2) above recited We're refused.
That such refusal by said town of
Mariaville to discontinue the portions
of town ways specified in "a and (2)
above recited was unreasonable. as be-
ing in direct opposition to the interests
of the. town of Mariaville itself as a
municipal corporation. to the inhabi-
tants thereof as individuals, to said
Hancock county as community; ana
to the economic and individual welfare,
Maine, the first because, If effective.
such refusal imposes upon the town of
Mariaville the necessity of maintain
ing and repairing two stretches of I'M
inhabited and useless public ways of
which Cd now terminates lin the mid
die of Union river by reason of the
town of Waltham having already dis
continued it's prolongation from that
point eastward, and (2) has been
! practically abandoned in fact for
years. the second because the expense
ing of these two stretches of public
ways, (if not discontinued) would fall
in the end upon the Inhabitants of
Mariaville as individuals and taxpay-
ers, and the third and fourth because
the refusal to discontinue Cd and (2)
operates and is intended to operate to
interfere with the project of one of the
largest public utility and industrial
corporations of our State to increase
It's capacity to furnish both public SER
vice and aid in carrying on individual
industrial enterprises in this region
through additional power to be gener-
ated by the flowing of these two
stretches of public ways in Maravlle
among other areas) as necessary TO
the carrying out of this project. while
on the other hand your petitioners be-
lieve and represent that no proper
reasons can be shown your honorable
board for said refusal of the town OF
Mariaville to discontinue these two
short stretches of public ways.
Wherefore. your petitioners. includ-
ing the Bar Harbor & Union River
Power Co. owners of important rights
in said Union river which trav"rses
the whole length of said town of Ma
riaville. being parties aggrieved. here
by appeal from said refusal by said
town of Mariaville.. and respectfully
ask under the provisions of section p
of chapter "a of our Maine revised
statutes. that your honorable board
your board and in accordance with the
authority with which you are by said
statutes vested. order s al tive t
Vile a. and (2) to be discontinued
under such provisions for the payment
of damages If any as may seem tG
your honorable board meet aid