Chap. 0061 AN ACT FOR INCORPORATING A CERTAIN PLANTATION IN THE COUNTY OF LINCOLN, CALLED MAJORBIGWADUCE, OR NUMBER THREE, INTO A TOWN BY THE NAME OF PENOBSCOT.
Whereas the inhabitants of the said Plantation, labor under many difficulties and inconveniencies, for want of being incorporated into a Town : Therefore,
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, that all the lands lying within the following limits, with the inhabitants thereon, viz. beginning at Buck harbour, so called, on the dividing line between Number three and Number four, and from thence running northeasterly, on the westerly line of Number four, Number five, and Number six, to the southerly corner of Number two ; thence westerly, on the southerly line of Number two, to Penobscot River; thence southerly, down the same River, and Penobscot Bay, to the southwester-most part of Cape Rozier; thence easterly, including Spectacle Island, to Buck harbour aforesaid, the place of beginning, be, and hereby are incorporated into a Town, by the name of Penobscot; and the said Town is hereby invested with all the powers, priviledges and immunities, that the Towns in this Commonwealth are intitled to, according to law.
And be it further Enacted, That Joseph Hibbert, Esqr. be, and he hereby is empowered, to issue his Warrant, to some principal inhabitant of said Town, to warn the inhabitants thereof to assemble, at such time and place in said Town, as by said Warrant shall be appointed, to choose all such Officers as by law are appointed to be chosen annually, in the Month of March or April; And the said inhabitants being so assembled, shall be, and hereby are empowered to choose such Officers accordingly :
Provided nevertheless, that nothing in this Act shall in any manner affect the right of soil, in the lands aforesaid, or discharge the taxes already assessed, or ordered to be assessed, in the said Plantation ; but the said town shall be considered, as held to pay all such taxes, which remain due and unpaid, from the said Plantation.
February 23, 1787.