An Act Concerning the Boundary Line of the Town of Unity
Maine Legislature, Session 121, LD 1779
Committee: State and Local Government
Sponsors: PIOTTI, WESTON, BOWEN, SUSLOVIC, THOMPSON

Legislative Document 
No. 1779 
H.P.1301 
House of Representatives, December 22,2003 
An Act Concerning the Boundary Line of the Town of Unity 
Approved for introduction by a majority of the Legislative Council pursuant to Joint Rule 
203. 
Received by the Clerk of the House on December 17, 2003. Referred to the Committee on 
State and Local Government pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2 and ordered printed pursuant to Joint 
Rule 401. 
Presented by Representative PIOTTI of Unity. 
Cosponsored by Senator WESTON of Waldo and 
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MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Representatives: BOWEN of Rockport, McLAUGHLIN of Cape Elizabeth, SUSLOVIC of 
Portland, THOMPSON of China. 
Printed on recycled paper 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec.!. Boundary line between the Town of Unity and the towns of 
Burnham, Albion, Freedom, Knox. Thorndike and Troy and Unity 
Township. 
The boundary between the Town of Unity, Waldo County', 
and the Town of Troy, Waldo County, 
commences at a 
112 inch 
brass plaque stamped '''Unity 2002 Troy" located in ledge at the 
approximate high-water line on the easterly shore of Unity Pond, 
formerly known as Twenty Five Mile Pond, in Waldo County, which 
brass plaque is at or near the southwesterly corner of the land 
now or formerly of Lee and Judith Getchell recorded in Book 1215, 
the point of beginning; thence south 79 degrees, 15 minutes, 42 
seconds east, passing along a 
monument identified on the plan 
hereinafter referenced, along the southerly line of the Town of 
Troy a distance of 4,641.28 feet to a set granite monument with a 
brass 
plaque 
stamped 
as 
aforesaid, 
which 
monument 
marks 
the 
northeasterly corner 
of 
the 
Town 
of Unity; 
thence 
south 
degrees, 5 minutes, 0 seconds east along a southwesterly line of 
the Town of Troy a distance of 5,459.36 feet to a set grani te 
monument with a brass plaque stamped as aforesaid; thence south 
degrees, 51 minutes, 1 second east along a southwesterly line 
of said Town of Troy a distance of 3,598.24 feet to a set granite 
monument with a brass plaque stamped "Unity Troy 2002 Thorndike" 
marking the common corner between these 3 towns; thence south 3 
degrees, 
minutes, 
seconds east, 
passing through several 
monuments identified on the plan hereinafter referenced, 
along 
the southwesterly line of the Town of Thorndike a distance of 
24,410.59 feet to a set granite monument with a brass plaque 
stamped 
"Unity 
2002 
Thorndike"; 
thence 
south 
degrees, 
minutes, 
seconds 
west, 
passing 
through 
several 
monuments 
identified 
on 
the 
plan 
hereinafter 
referenced, 
along 
the 
northwesterly 
line 
of 
the 
Town 
of 
Thorndike 
and 
then 
the 
northwesterly line of the 
Town 
of 
Knox 
a 
total distance of 
9,657.68 feet to the common corner with the towns of Unity. Knox 
and Freedom marked by a set granite monument with a brass plaque 
stamped "Unity Knox 2002 Freedom"; thence north 79 degrees, 41 
minutes, 
seconds 
west, 
passing 
through 
several 
monuments 
identified 
on 
the 
plan 
hereinafter 
referenced, 
along 
the 
northeasterly 
line 
of 
the 
Town 
of 
Freedom 
and 
then 
the 
northeasterly line of the Town of Albion a total distance of 
33,463.31 feet to a set granite monument with a brass plaque 
stamped "Unity 2002 Albion" marking the southwesterly corner of 
the Town of Unity; thence north 10 degrees, 42 minutes, 6 seconds 
east, passing through several monuments identified on the plan 
hereinafter referenced, along the southeasterly line of the Town 
of Albion, 
Kennebec County and then the southeasterly line of 
Unity Township, 
Kennebec County, 
a total distance of 32,987.28 
feet to a set granite monument with a brass plaque stamped "Unity 
Burnham 2002 Unity Township" marking the northwesterly corner of 
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the 
Town of Unity; 
thence 
south 
degrees, 
minutes, 
seconds east, along the same line as shown on a plan entitled 
"Burnham-Unity-Unity 
Township 
Corporate 
Boundary" 
recorded 
in 
Plan Book 12, Page 78 at the Waldo County Registry of Deeds, with 
bear ing referred to as south 81 degrees, 39 minutes, 20 seconds 
east, passing through several monuments identified on the plan 
hereinafter referenced, a total distance of 11, 276.65 feet to a 
found granite monument with a brass plaque stamped "Unity 1981 
Burnham" which monument is at or near the easterly right-of-way 
line of the Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad; thence south 79 
degrees, 
minutes, 
seconds east, 
and shown on said plan 
entitled 
"Burnham-Unity-Unity 
Township 
Corporate 
Boundary" 
as 
south 78 degrees, 34 minutes, 15 seconds east, along a southerly 
line of the Town of Burnham a distance of 311.02 feet to a found 
granite monument stamped "Unity 1981 Burnham", 
on the westerly 
shore of Unity Pond; thence generally southeasterly, easterly and 
then northeasterly about 29,850 feet along the high-water line of 
said Unity Pond to the point of beginning, on a tie line from the 
previously mentioned found monument north 53 degrees, 48 minutes, 
seconds east a distance of 10,721.66 feet, containing 25,143 
acres. 
Bear ings recited in the above description are referenced to 
grid north. 
The above described boundary is the same as shown on a plan 
entitled "Town of Unity, Corporate Boundary," dated March 2003, 
prepared by Reynolds Land Surveying, to be recorded at the Waldo 
County Registry of Deeds. 
Sec. 2. P&SL 1821, c. 36 is repealed. 
Sec. 3. P&SL 1868, c. 398 is repealed. 
Sec. 4. P&SL 1983, c. 9 is repealed. 
SUMMARY 
This bill reestablishes the boundary line for the Town of 
Unity based on a recent survey.