The above described location crosses highways or County roads is in said town of Rumford as follows: River Road at Smith's crossing, Station o; railroad Street, Station 46+38.

Your petitioners further represent that a crossing of either of said highways by the railroad, if constructed upon said changed location, would be dangerous to the public, including not only travellers on the railroad of your petitioners, but also travellers passing along said highways.

That it is not feasible to separate the grades of your petitioners' railroad and the highway at Smith's Crossing, Station o, and that to facilitate said crossing the course of the said highway should be altered so that the said railroad should pass at the side thereof.

Your petitioners suggest that to facilitate said crossing the course of the said highway at Smith's Crossing be altered as follows, viz:

The easterly line of said suggested altered highway begins. at a point in the easterly line of the highway as now located at Smith's Crossing, so called, ten (10) feet distant westerly, measured on line at right angles thereto, from the base line of said original location of the Portland and Rumford Falls Railway; running thence Northwesterly, along westerly line of proposed changed location of the Portland and Rumford Falls Railway, produced southerly, and along said westerly line of proposed changed location, about three hundred and seventy-five (375) feet to point sixteen and one-half (161) feet distant, eastwardly, measured on line at right angles thereto, from base line of original location of the Portland and Rumford Falls Railway; thence northwardly, parallel with and sixteen and one-half (161) feet distant, eastwardly, from said base line of original location, about eighteen hundred and sixty-five (1865) feet to an angle; thence northwesterly, by a straight line, about twelve hundred and five (1205) feet to a point in the division line between land of the Rumford Falls Power Company and the Portland and Rumford Falls Railway six hundred (600) feet northerly from the southwesterly corner of tract of land owned by the Portland and Rumford Falls Railway; thence northwesterly on said division line, about twelve hundred and ninety-five (1295) feet to an angle; thence northerly, across land

and track of the Passenger Station Branch of the Portland and Rumford Falls Railway, about one hundred and thirty-seven (137) feet to an angle in Railroad Street, so called, the location of Railroad Street being recorded in Volume 8, Page 465 of the records of the County Commissioners of said Oxford County.

The westerly line of said suggested altered highway is parallel with and forty (40) feet westerly from, measured at right angles thereto, the above described easterly line from the town. way running westerly from the highway near Smith's Crossing to point of intersection of said westerly line with westerly line of original location of Portland and Rumford Falls Railway; thence following said westerly line of original location to point forty-nine and one-half (491) feet westerly from, measured on line at right angles thereto, said above described easterly line; thence to Railroad Street forty-nine and one-half (491) feet westerly, from, measured on line at right angles thereto, said above described easterly line.

The land which would be taken for said suggested altered highway is owned and described as follows:

C. F. Smith of said Town of Rumford.

Beginning at the intersection of the westerly line of highway or County road called River Road and the northerly line of the Town way near said Smith's Crossing; running thence westerly, along said northerly line of the Town Way ten (10) feet, more or less, to the westerly side of location of said suggested altered highway; thence northerly, along said westerly side of location of said suggested altered highway, two hundred and ten (210) feet to westerly line of original location of the Portland and Rumford Falls Railway; thence southerly, along said westerly line of original location of Portland and Rumford Falls Railway, one hundred and ninety-five (195) feet to the said westerly side of highway; thence along said westerly side of highway to the place of beginning, containing about one-twen tieth (1-20) of an acre.

The Rumford Falls Power Company and the Portland and Rumford Falls Railway will permit the suggested altered highway to be located and constructed without payment for land taken.

The suggested altered highway location crosses at its northerly

end the Passenger Station Branch railroad of the Portland and Rumford Falls Railway upon which no regular trains are to be operated after the railroad on proposed changed location shall have been built.

It is suggested that the crossing of Railroad Street be made. by an overhead bridge with earth embankment approaches.

Your petitioners file herewith a map or plan on an appropriate scale and profile on relative scales of profile paper in common use dated April, 1913, signed by Morris McDonald, Vice President and General Manager of Maine Central Railroad Company and B. T. Wheeler, Chief Engineer of said Maine Central Railroad Company showing the said original location of Portland and Rumford Falls Railway, the new location covered by said proposed change, the said highways and the said suggested location for the altered highway.

Wherefore your petitioners request your Honorable Board to approve the said change in location of said railroad to be made. under the directions of your Honorable Board; to alter the course of said highway called River Road so that the said railroad may pass at the side thereof and for such purposes to take such land as may be necessary and to award damages therefor in accordance to the provisions of Section 66 or Chapter 51 of the Revised Statutes of Maine; to cause so much of said highway called River Road as now lies between the westerly line of proposed changed location of the Portland and Rumford Falls Railway and Railroad Street to be discontinued when highway on said suggested altered location shall have been built.

Your petitioners also pray your Honorable Board to determine the manner and conditions by which said railroad on said changed location may cross the aforesaid highways and the manner and conditions by which said highway on said suggested altered location may cross said Passenger Station Branch railroad and how the expenses shall be borne.

Dated at Portland, Maine, April 29th, 1913.

Portland and Rumford Falls Railway,.

By GEORGE D. BISBEE.

Maine Central Railroad Company,

By MORRIS MCDONALD,

.Vice President & General Manager.

SETH M. CARTER, Attorney.

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 fourteen days before Tuesday the 27th day of May, A. D. 1913, on which day the Board of Railroad Commissioners will be in session at the office of the Rumford Falls Power Company in Rumford Falls at 11.45 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 County Commissioners of Oxford County and to the Municipal officers of the town of Rumford 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 9th day of May 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. George D. Bisbee and Mr. Seth M. Carter appeared for the petitioners.

Mr. H. D. Hammond, Chairman, Board of County Commissioners, appeared for the County of Oxford.

Mr. H. H. Hutchins, Chairman, Board of Selectmen, appeared, for the town of Rumford.

This is a petition by the Portland and Rumford Falls Railway, owner, and the Maine Central Railroad Company, lessee and operator, of a railroad running from a point in the town of Canton to and into the town of Rumford, in which it is represented that the petitioners deem it necessary and expedient for the safe and convenient operation of said railroad that a change be made in its location in the town of Rumford for the purpose

of improving its alignment and gredients, and to eliminate a present grade crossing of the tracks of said railroad by the highway known as River Road at Smith's Crossing, so called.

The Board of Railroad Commissioners hereby authorizes and directs that the location of said railroad in said town of Rumford may be changed as prayed for in the foregoing petition; that said railroad may be constructed on said changed location, and that land therefor, as described in said petition, may be taken for said purpose.

We also determine and decree that the course of said highway called River Road be altered to permit said railroad to pass at the side thereof, the changed course of said highway to be as particularly described in the foregoing petition, which said description is expressly referred to and made a part of this decree. Land may be taken for the above described way, and we award C. F. Smith, an owner of land over and through which said changed way is laid, damages in the sum of two hundred dollars, to be paid to him by the county of Oxford when said land shall be entered upon for the construction of said way. When the highway on said altered location shall have been built, so much thereof as now lies between the westerly line of said changed location of the Portland and Rumford Falls Railway and Railroad Street shall be discontinued.

It is hereby further ordered and decreed that the aforesaid highway on its altered location shall cross the tracks of the Passenger Station Branch railroad of the Portland and Rumford Falls Railway at grade therewith, and that the main line of said railway on its changed location shall pass under Railroad street, so-called. The approaches to the bridge which shall carry said Railroad street over said railroad location shall be earth embankments, and the grade of said approaches shall be as follows: Easterly, not to exceed 6.2%; westerly not to exceed 5%. Both said crossings within the limits of said railway's location, shall be constructed and maintained by the petitioners in such manner as to be safe and convenient for travelers on said ways, and all the work shall be done to the approval and satisfaction of the Railroad Commissioners.

Dated at Augusta this twenty-sixth day of June, A. D. 1913.

ELMER P. SPOFFORD,

FRANK KEIZER,

Railroad Commissioners of Maine.