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Maine State Archives
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322428
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An Act to divide the town of Wells, and incorporate the northeasterly part thereof as a town by the name of Kennebunk.
SECT. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, That all that part of the town of Wells, in the county of York, lying northeasterly of the followingly line, viz. : beginning at the sea, at the mouth of Little river; thence running up the middle of said river to the mouth of the Branch river; thence up the middle of said Branch river, to the line between said Wells and Sanford, with the inhabitants thereon, be, and the same hereby are incorporated into a separate town, by the name of Kennebunk ; and vested with all the powers, privileges and immunities, and subject to all the duties and requisitions of other corporate towns, agreeably to the constitution and laws of this State.
SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That the inhabitants of the said town of Kennebunk, shall be holden to pay the arrears of all taxes, which have been legally assessed on them, together with their proportion of all assessments, which may have been voted by, and debts due from said town of Wells at the time this act may take effect; said proportion to be ascertained by the last valuation of the respective towns. And said in habitants of Kennebunk shall be entitled to receive their proportion of all assessments voted by, and debts and taxes due to said town of Wells at that time; and also their proportion of the personal property, (except as hereinafter mentioned,) to be divided according to the valuation aforesaid.
SECT. 3. Be it further enacted, That all persons, belonging to said town of Wells, who shall be chargeable, as paupers, when this act may take effect, or shall afterwards become chargeable, shall be considered as belonging to, and having their settlement in said town of Wells or Kennebunk, respectively, according as their settlement may have been gained on the territory of the one, or the other, at the time this act may take effect, and in future, shall be chargeable to such town only; and the unascertained expenses, up to said time, of all paupers, residing out of said town of Wells, but belonging thereto, shall be paid by said towns, in proportion to the Valuation before mentioned.
SECT. 4. Be it further enacted, That the real estate, owned by said town of Wells, shall belong to said Wells or Kennebunk, according to the local situation thereof within their respective boundaries; and the town stock of powder, balls, flints, guns and camp equipage on hand, at the time this act may take effect, shall be divided between said towns, in proportion to the number of men borne on the rolls of the militia of the respective towns, at said time.
SECT. 5. Be it further enacted, That the privileges of obtaining clams, sea-weed, and rock-weed from the beaches and flats in said towns, which the inhabitants have been accustomed to use from time immemorial, shall continue in common as heretofore.
SECT. 6. Be it further enacted, That any Justice of the ji Peace for the county of York, is hereby empowered, upon application therefor, to issue his warrant, directed to any free hold inhabitant of said town of Kennebunk, requiring him to notify and warn the inhabitants thereof, qualified to vote in town affairs, to meet at such convenient place and time, as shall be appointed in said warrant, for the choice of such officers, as towns are bylaw authorized and required to choose and appoint, at their annual meetings.
SECT. 7. Be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect from and after the thirty-first day of July next.
[This Act passed June 13, 1820.]
Exact Creation Date
6-14-1820
Language
English
Keywords
Act; Maine Law; 1820; Legislature; Statehood; Maine State Legislature