Detroit-INCORPORATION.
The East Somerset County Register
1911-12
Compiled and Published by Chatto & Turner
Auburn, Maine
Clarence I. Chatto; Clair E. Turner
page 100-101

INCORPORATION.

In the year of our Lord 1828.

An act to incorporate the Town of Chandlerville. Be it
enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legis-
lature assembled that the plantation numbered five in the sec-
ond range north of the Waldo patent, in the county of Som-
erset, bounded as follows to wit: Beginning at the northwest
corner of said plantation and at the south line of Palmyra,
thence running east to Plymouth, and to the county line be-
tween the counties of Somerset and Penobscot; thence south
on said Plymouth, to the first range of townships north of the
Waldo patent; thence west, on said range line to Burnham,
thence northerly, on said Burnham, to the Sebatiticook river;
thence by the east line of Pittsfield, to the south line of Pal-
myra, the first mentioned bounds, be, and the same hereby is
incorporated into a town by the name of Chandlerville; and the
inhabitants of said town are hereby vested with all the Powers,
privileges and immunities which the inhabitants of other towns
within this State do, or may by law, enjoy.

Approved by Gov., Feb. 19, 1828.

Name changed to Detroit, Mar. 18, 1841.


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