Excerpt from Centennial Celebration: An Account of the Municipal Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Incorporation of the Town of Portland, July 4th, 5th and 6th, 1886 The Petition of the Subscribers - Inhabitants of that part of the Town of Falmouth in the County of Cumberland, commonly called the neck, humbly sheweth, That in their present situation they are destitute of many ad vantages which the inhabitants of maritime towns receive, and which as such they might enjoy if they were incorporated into a different Town. In their present state they suffer much for want of some regular method of employing and supporting the Poor, who are principally resident in that part of the Town, and of repairing and regulating their streets. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.