surveyDescription | Book 5 Page 204 A portion of Town Highway no. 11 Order The undersigned, Selectman of the Town of Hartland, County of Windsor and State of Vermont, met at Damon Hall in that town on Tuesday, November 21, A. D. 1961, for the purpose of hearing all interested persons on the question whether the public good requires that they discontinue that portion of Town Highway No. 11 lying within the lands of Harley Cloud and the lands of Mrs. Frances E Larrabee and within the area of flowage of the North Hartland Dam & Reservoir. There were present all of the Selectman, the Town Manager Donald Frail land Town Attorney Lewis E. Springer, Jr., representing the Town of Hartland. On hearing the evidence produced, it is found that notice of the hearing was given by the Selectman to all interested persons by posting in the two public places in the Town of Hartland and by sending duplicate originals thereof by certified mail to Harley Cloud, Frances E. Larrabee and the Division Engineer, U.S. Army Engineer Division , NE, Corps of Engineers, 424 Trapelo Road, Waltham 54, Mass.: that each of the parties named above to whom notice was sent by certified mail received the notice and returned a receipt therefore; that the portion of Town Highway No. 11 described above has been abandoned as a public highway as far as use is concerned, a new highway having constructed southerly thereof which is to be conveyed to the Town of Hartland by the United States of America under a certain contract between the Town of Hartland and the United States of America; and that the public good and necessity no longer require continuance of that portion of Town Highway No. 11 which is the subject of the hearing as a public highway, but does requ8re the discontinuance thereof as a public highway. It is, therefore, ORDERED that that portion of Town Highway No 11 lying within the lands of Harley Cloud and Frances Larrabee and the area of flowage of North Hartland Dam & Reservoir be discontinued as a public highway, effective upon the filing of this Order in the Town Clerkâs Office of the Town of Hartland. It is also ORDERED, under 19 VSA ss 535, that that portion of the highway so discontinued which lies within the lands of Harley Cloud be set, and is hereby set, to Harley Cloud ; that that portion of the highway so discontinued which lies within the lands of Frances E. Larrabee be set, and is hereby set, to Frances E Larrabee; and that that portion of the highway so discontinues which lies between the lands of Harley Cloud and Frances Larrabee, it being impossible to determine to which lot that portion originally belonged, be set, and is hereby set, by equal division thereof by a line constituting the center line of the right of way, one-half to Harley Cloud and the other to Frances E. Larrabee, the portion set to each being that portion contiguous to their respective lands. This disposition of the lands of the discontinued highway constitutes a fixing of damages by reason of the discontinuance above ordered, no evidence of damage having been presented. Dated at Hartland, in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont, this 29th day of December, A. D. 1961 Sidney N. Hammond Louis E. Maxfield Kenneth J Murphey Selectman Received for record and recorded in Hartland Road Records, Vol. 5, page 204 this 30th day of December, A. D. 1961. M P Rogers Town Clerk |