On the foregoing petition,

Ordered: That the petitioner cause to be published a true copy of said petition and this order of notice thereon, attested by the Clerk of this Board, three days successively in the Lewiston Daily Sun, a newspaper published at Lewiston, in the county of Androscoggin, the first publication in said paper to be at least four days before Saturday, the 19th day of April, A. D. 1913, on which day the Board of Railroad Commissioners will be in session at The New DeWitt in Lewiston, Maine, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, when and where all parties interested may be heard thereon.

Notice of said time and place of hearing shall also be given to the Mayor of the City of Lewiston; the County Commissioners of Androscoggin County, and to Mr. H. B. Ivers, General Manager of the Lewiston, Augusta & Waterville Street Railway, Portland, Maine, by forwarding by mail, postage prepaid, to them a copy of said petition and order, attested as aforesaid, four days at least before the date of said hearing.

ELMER P. SPOFFORD, Chairman,

For the Board of Railroad Commissioners of Maine. Dated this 14th day of April, A. D. 1913.

STATE OF MAINE.

In Board of Railroad Commissioners.

Upon the foregoing petition, notice having been given as ordered, the Board met at the time and place mentioned in said order and gave a hearing to all parties interested.

Mr. S. M. Carter appeared for the petitioner.

Mr. W. H. Newell appeared for the Lewiston, Augusta and Waterville Street Railway.

The Board of Railroad Commissioners hereby approves the proposed location and construction of a branch railroad track in said city of Lewiston, extending from a point in Lewiston Branch, so called, to the mills of the Lewiston Bleachery and Dye Works, as described in the foregoing petition and shown on the plan accompanying the same; and we hereby decree that said. branch track may cross said Lisbon Street and the location of

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the Lewiston, Augusta and Waterville Street Railway at grade therewith; and said crossing shall be made and maintained by the Maine Central Railroad Company in such manner that the same shall be safe and convenient for public travel; and when in use by said railroad, said crossing shall be protected by a flagman furnished and maintained by said company.

Dated at Augusta, this tenth day of June, A. D. 1913.

FRANK KEIZER,

JOHN A. JONES,

Railroad Commissioners of Maine.

Petition and decision of the Board in the matter of Maine Central Railroad Company, asking for the approval of a change of location and crossing Water Street, and the tracks of the Lewiston, Augusta & Waterville Street Railway in Augusta.

To the Honorable Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of Maine:

The Maine Central Railroad Company, a corporation established under the laws of the State of Maine, located and having its principal place of business at City of Portland in the County of Cumberland and State aforesaid, respect fully represents:

That it owns and operates a railroad running between the City of Portland in the County of Cumberland and the City of Waterville in the County of Kennebec, all in the State aforesaid, said railroad having been built between the City of Augusta, in the County of Kennebec and said Waterville under the provisions of Chapter 186 of the Private Laws of the State of Maine, approved August 10, 1848 and Chapter 5 of the said laws, approved February 5, 1853.

That your petitioner deems it necessary and expedient for the safe and convenient operation of its railroad to make a change in the location of its said railroad in the said City of Augusta, the said change being proposed for the purpose of improving the alignment, and for double tracking its railroad, including also the construction of a new double track bridge across the Kennebec River, so that the main track shall deviate

from its present and original location where the change is proposed.

The base line of said proposed changed location begins at a point in said base line at Station 11+84.53 situated about 64 feet northerly of the northerly line of Bridge Street at a point 13 feet westerly, at a right angle thereto, from Station 2+89 of the base ine of location of the Maine Central Railroad Company, formerly the Somerset and Kennebec Railroad Company, as recorded in Book 12, Page 87 of the Records of the County Commissioners of Kennebec County; thence by a tangent north 35° 10' East, a distance of 168 feet to Station 13+52.53; thence by a curve to the right of 955.37 feet radius, a distance of 763.98 feet to Station 21+16.51; thence by a tangent north 81° o' east, a distance of 613.81 feet to Station 27+30.32; thence by a curve to the left of 955.37 feet radius, a distance of 788.01 feet to Station 35+18.33; thence by a tangent north 33° 39′ east, a distance of 681.67 feet to Station 42, said Station 42 being in the centre of the present main track East of the Kennebec River and in the aforesaid base line of location of said Somerset and Kennebec Railroad Company.

The width covered by this location is bounded and described as follows:

On the left or westerly side by a line beginning in the westerly side line of the aforesaid location of the Somerset and Kennebec Railroad Company at a point opposite Station 11+84.53 of said changed location; thence northerly along said westerly side line of location of the Somerset and Kennebec Railroad Company to a point distant 23 feet westerly, measured at a right angle thereto, from the above described base line of changed location near Station 14+70; thence Northerly, parallel with and distant 23 feet westerly, at a right angle thereto, from said base line to the Northerly line of land of the Maine Central Railroad Company on the Easterly side of Water Street; thence easterly along said last mentioned line and said line extended into Kennebec river, to a point distant 33 feet northerly, at a right angle thereto, from said base line; thence easterly, by a line parallel with and distant 33 feet northerly, at a right angle, from said base line, to the northeasterly line of land of said Maine Central Railroad Company on the easterly side of the Kennebec river.

On the right or easterly side by a line beginning in the Easterly side line of the aforesaid location of said Somerset and Kennebec Railroad Company opposite Station 11+84.53 of said changed location; thence northerly along said easterly side line of location of said Somerset and Kennebec Railroad Company to a point distant 23 feet easterly, at a right angle thereto, from said base line of changed location, near Station 14; thence northerly, parallel with and distant 23 feet easterly, at a right angle thereto, from said base line of changed location to the southerly line of the aforesaid parcel of land of said Maine Central Railroad Company on the Easterly side of Water Street; thence easterly, by said last mentioned line to a point distant 33 feet easterly, at a right angle, from said base line; thence northerly by a line parallel with and distant 33 feet easterly, at a right angle thereto, from said base line to a point opposite Station 42.

This location is in addition to all prior rights of the Maine Central Railroad Company heretofore acquired by it or its predecessors in title by location or purchase and is made subject thereto and without in any way abandoning said rights or any part thereof.

The above described location crosses Water Street, a highway or county way, and the railroad (electric) of the Lewiston, Augusta & Waterville Street Railway.

Your petitioner files herewith a map or plan on an appropriate scale and profile of the line on the relative scales of profile paper in common use, dated March, 1913, entitled "Proposed Change in Location of Maine Central Railroad, across Kennebec River, in Augusta, Kennebec County, Maine" signed by B. T. Wheeler, Chief Engineer and Morris McDonald, Vice President and General Manager, showing the original location of the Somerset and Kennebec Railroad, now Maine Central Railroad, the new location required by said proposed change, the said highway and the said railroad of the Lewiston, Augusta & Waterville Street Railway.

Wherefore, your petitioner requests your Honorable Board to approve the said change in location to be made under the direction of your Honorable Board and also prays that your Honorable Board will determine the manner and conditions by

which said Railroad on said changed location may cross the aforesaid highway and the said railroad of the Lewiston, Augusta and Waterville Street Railway.

Dated at Portland, Maine, April 9th, 1913.

Maine Central Railroad Company,

By MORRIS MCDONALD,

Vice President & General Manager.

SETH M. CARTER, General Counsel.

On the foregoing petition,

Ordered: That the petitioner cause to be published a true copy of said petition and this order of notice thereon, attested by the Clerk of this Board, three days successively in the Daily Kennebec Journal, a newspaper published at Augusta, in the county of Kennebec, the last publication in said paper to be at least fourteen days before Friday, the ninth day of May, A. D. 1913, on which day the Board of Railroad Commissioners will be in session at their office in the State House, Augusta, Maine, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, when and where all parties interested may be heard thereon.

Notice of said time and place of hearing shall also be given to the Mayor of the City of Augusta; the County Commissioners of Kennebec County, and to Mr. H. B. Ivers, General Manager of the Lewiston, Augusta & Waterville Street Railway, Portland, Maine, by forwarding by mail, postage prepaid, to them a copy of said petition and order, attested as aforesaid, fourteen days at least before the date of said hearing.

ELMER P. SPOFFORD, Chairman,

For the Board of Railroad Commissioners of Maine. Dated this 14th day of April, A. D. 1913.

STATE OF MAINE.

In Board of Railroad Commissioners.

Upon the foregoing petition, notice having been given as ordered, the Board met at the time and place fixed by said order and gave a hearing to all parties interested.

Mr. Seth M. Carter appeared for the petitioner.