M. Act of Incorporation by General Court of Massachusetts. An Act to incorporate the Plantation called Weft Butterfield, in the county of Cumberland, into a town by the name of Sumner. SECT. I. BE E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the fame, That the plantation of Weft Butterfield, in the county of Cumberland, bounded as follows, viz. Beginning at the northweft corner of Buckfield on Paris line; thence running north thirteen degrees weft four miles and one hundred and eightyfour rods; thence north one mile and two hundred and twenty rods; thence north eighty degrees eaft four miles and forty rods; thence fouth fifty-five degrees east two hundred and twelve rods to the middle of the east branch of Twenty-milesriver; thence down the middle of said river, until it comes to Buckfield north line; thence north eighty-one degrees weft on Buckfield north line four miles and two hundred fifty four rods to the bounds first mentioned, with the inhabitants thereon, be, and they hereby are incorporated into a town by the name of Sumner. And the said town is hereby vested with all the powers, privileges and immunities which other towns in this Commonwealth do or may by law enjoy. SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That ISAAC Sturdivant, Efq. be, and he herby is empowered to issue his warrant directed to some suitable inhabitant within faid town, requiring him to warn a meeting of the inhabitants thereof at fuch time and place as shall be expreffed in faid warrant for the purpose of choosing fuch town officers as other towns are empowered to choose in the month of March or April annually. [This Act paffed June 13, 1798.] ་ N. Division into School Districts. Butterfield Jenuary 16 1795 this Day met at mr John Bridgs the sade Commeta Chosen By sade plantaon to Destrickt sade plantaon and agred as folars the Sixth dest Begining at burch point and runing thence to Livermore Town and from thence on the town line to Raged Ass and from thence to the first mentioned bounds Given under our hands this 16 day of January 1795 Henry C. Barrett 9th Maine Infantry. George W. Abbott Charles B. Bonney Charles Gowell Oscar F. Heald George W. Ryerson Gustavus H. Ryerson Roscoe G. Stephens Edmund Thorne Daniel S. Warren 10th Maine Infantry. Elisha T. Bisbee Elbridge Murch Roscoe J. Kidder |