STATE OF MAINE.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, July 23, 1847.

ORDERED, That 350 copies of the foregoing bill, reported from the committee on education, be printed for the use of the legislature. SAMUEL BELCHER, Clerk.

TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE.

No. 5.]

STATE OF MAINE.

HOUSE.

RESOLVES for the relief of the town of Oldtown.

WHEREAS, the County Commissioners for Penobscot county, by authority of a resolve, approved March seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, laid out on a petition therefor, a highway across Orson Island, situated in Oldtown, in said county, and whereas said Island belongs to the Penobscot tribe of Indians, and is not subject to taxation, therefore

Resolved, That the town of Oldtown be, and hereby is, exempted from all liability, under said resolves, for making and maintaining bridges leading to and from said Island, and opening said highway and keeping the same in repair, anything in the several acts directing the method of laying out and opening and repairing highways to the contrary notwithstanding.

Resolved, That the Governor with the advice of Council, is hereby authorized to procure by some competent civil engineer, a survey of Orson Island, and of the several channels of the Penobscot river around the same, together with full and detailed plans and estimates of expenditure for the erection of the bridges necessary to connect the road over Marsh Island, with the road on the main land above said Orson Island, and the report of such surveyor shall be completed before the session of the next Legislature.