The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1826-01-25
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
WoRCEsTE8, IS. Court Of Sessions, Sep
TENDER Term, 1925, and holden, by adjourn
n,snt, on The fifth Tuesday Of November,
1925.
A ND now the Report of Ma
IA THANIEL P. DENNY, WILLIAM CRAw-
FORD, Jr. and SAMUEL DAMAN, Commission.
ers appointed by this Court, on the application
of the Blackstone Canal Company, to estimate
all such damages as they should think any
person or persons, Corporation or Corporations
would sustain By the construction Of the dams
mentioned in the location and application of
the said Blackstone Canal Company, having
| been duly considered by the Court aforesaid,
| is allowed, accepted, and ordered to be re-
corded. And it is further ordered by the
| Court, that the said Report be forthwith pub
hshed, at the expense of said Corporation, in
each Of the newspapers printed in Worcester,
( in said County, which Reports IS as follows a.
| We, the subscribers, Commissioners named
in the foregoing Warrant, after having been
duly sworn, and after giving public and sea-
sonable notice to all persons interested, to file
their claims, as directed ia said Warrant, did,
on the fourteenth instant, proceed on the fur
ther discharge of the duty assigned US, by re-
pairing to the outlet at Dorety Pond, in Mill
| bury, where we met Samuel March, William
Brown, and Sullivan Newton, persons named
as owners of the land occupied by the location
of dam at that place; and after having
viewed the same, and hearing the said March.
| Brown and Newton, in support of their claims
do assess them damages as follows, Viz:-To
Samuel March, for about two square rods OIL
land, one dollar: and TO said Brown, and
Newton, jointly, for about twenty-five square
rods of land, four dollars.
On the fifteenth inst. we repaired to the
location of dam across Beaver Brook, in the
Town of Uxbridge, en- land of Joseph Buxton
where we met said Buxton. sAnd after view.
ing the land to be occupied by said dam, and
hearing said Buxton in support of his claim
for damages, do assess the sum of six dollars
to be paid him in damage for his land afore.
said, being forty-fv square rods.
On the same day we repaired to the loca.
ton Of dam at the outlet of Bad Luck Pond
in the town Of Douglas, on land belonging tc
Lemuel Dudley; and, after viewing the land
do assess the sum of twelve dollars, TO be paid
him as damages for the occupation of about
eighty-seven square rods by the dam afore
said. Said dam to be SO constructed as to en-.
\ able the said Dudley to cart over It.
In assessing the damages aforesaid, in all the
cases we have taken into consideration, the
right Of the Blackstone Canal Company's pas
sing and repassing over the lands of the sale
Dudley, Buxton, March, Brown, and Newton
for the purpose Of building and repairing sale
dams, and for the purpose of managing thei
gates at pleasure; but in no case have we as
sessed any damages for flowing. The afore
said damages are TO be paid to the severa
claimants by the Blackstone Canal Compan,
as soon as said Company shall commence
building the dams aforesaid, with which W.
consider said Company have no right to stoI
the flowing Of any other than food waters.
All which is respectfully submitted to th,
Hon. Court Of Sessions within and for thu
County Of Worcester.
| NATHANIEL P. DENNY,
WILLIAM CRAWFORD, Jr.
SAMUEL DAMAN.
Mon. Is, 1926.