Chap. 0040 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE NORTHERLY PART OF THE PLANTATION CALLED DUCK TRAP IN THE COUNTY OF HANCOCK INTO A TOWN BY THE NAME OF NORTHPORT.

Be it enacted by the Senate & House of Representatives in General Court Assembled, & by the Authority of the same, that the Northerly part of the Plantation called Duck trap in the County of Hancock contained within the following description to wit, beginning at Little River, so called, on the line of the town of Belfast, thence running a Southwesterly course round the shore of the Bay called Penobscot Bay & round Duck Trap point, so called, to the line dividing Joshua Adams's land from land belonging to John Wade, thence upon said line North West by North or 'till it strikes the head of a pond about a mile from the shore, from thence across said Pond the same course 'till it strikes the line dividing Henry Pendleton's land from land of George Pitcher, thence North West by North so far as to make six miles from the shore, thence North east by East three miles & one sixteenth, thence South twenty two degrees East ninety rods to the Southwesterly line of Belfast, thence North sixty eight degrees East upon Belfast line three miles & eighty nine rods to the first mentioned boundary, together with the inhabitants within said District be & they hereby are incorporated into a town by the name of Northport with all the powers, privileges & immunities of other towns in this Commonwealth.

And be it farther enacted by the authority aforesaid that Oliver Parker esqr. be & he hereby is authorized & directed to issue his warrant to some principal inhabitant of the said Town of Northport requiring him to warn the inhabitants of said town to meet at such time & place as shall be appointed in said warrant to elect such officers as Towns are by Law impowered to elect in the month of March or April, annually. Provided nevertheless, that the inhabitants hereby incorporated shall be holden to pay their proportion of all Taxes heretofore assessed upon the Plantation of Duck Trap, & all other demands thereon.

Approved February 13, 1796.