The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-10-01

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
WORCESTER, IS. At meeting of the County
Commissioners, held at Worcester, within
and for the County of Worcester, on the sec
ond Tuesday of September, 1928:
a Nd now The Report OF Nathaniel P. Denny,
"a William Crawford, Jr., and Samuel Daman,
Commissioners appointed by the late Court of
Sessions. 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 location of the part of the route of the Canal
and of reservoir mentioned in the location and
application of the said Blackstone Canal Com
pany, having been duly considered By the said
County Commissioners, is allowed, accepted,
and ordered to be recorded. And it is further
ordered by the said County Commissioners,
that the said Report be forthwith published, at
the expense of said Corporation, in each of the
newspapers printed in said Worcester. Which
! Report is as follows:
WORCESTER, SIS. July A, 1928, We, the
subscribers, Commissioners named in the fore
going Warrant, having pursuant to the direc-
tiOns therein contained, given public and sea-
sonable notice to all persons interested, to file
| their claims in the manner therein pointed out,
by publishing notice of the time of meeting,
and the route to be examined, three weeks sue
ccssively in each of the following public papers,
printed in Worcester, in the County of Worces-
I ter, viz: The Massachusetts, Spy, and forces
ter 4dcertiser, the National .EgiS and the Mas
Sachusetts YeOma1 !: in which notice all persons
and Corporations, interested as aforesaid, were
desired to file their claims for damages, if any
they had, with some one of the Commissioners,
or with the Clerk of the County Commissioners
for the County of Worcester, within thirty days
from the fourteenth day of May last past Also
at the same time having given notice to all
persons and Corporations interested, of the
time and place of meeting, and of the routes to
be examined, for the purpose of estimating dam
ages by publishing an advertisement thereof in
three successive papers in each of the aforesaid
newspapers, did, pursuant to said notice, and in
conformity Herewith, meet al said Worcester,
on land of Jonathan Grout, on the second dav
of July, A. d. 1928; and after being sworn to
discharge the duty assigned us, faithfully and
lmpartiaily, pursuant to said Warrant, we en-
tered upon the routes and locations hereafter
described, and pursued their several courses,
with their lengths and breadths of chain. as des
| crIbed IN the foregoing Warrant hearing all
claimants who appeared before us On land of
said Jonathan Grout, with the privileges of con.
structing lock on said land, and of turning the
public travel over said CIRCUITS land, during the
Time OF the construction of said lock, to whom
we award nothing IN damages. On land of Ma
man Ferry, TOR the purpose of a rev channel
TOR the river, to whom we award nothing in
damages. Also, Pleasant Falls Pond, so called,
IN the town of Sutton, as a reservoir for the use
OF said Canal, with the right Of maintaining the
dam at said pond at its present height for the
purpose aforesaid Said dam is across the Black
stone in said Sutton, and owned by Wilkinson
and Hopplns, to whom we award nothing in
damages. The land around said pond, which is,
and will be permanently overflowed, by keeping
up said dam to its present height, is owned in
severalty, by Wilkinson and Hoppins, by Paul
Z. Chase, Susan Chase, Thaddeus Chase, Dan
lel Rice, and Asa q Lyman Goodell To said
Wilkinson q HoPpins we award nothing, they
having filed no claim. Said flowing covers
eight acres and eghty-one square rods of land.
belonging to Joshua and Paul c. Chase, to whom
we award the sum of two hundred and twenty
hve dollars Tor his permanent damages, and thir.
teen dollars and fifty cents for damages in 1927,
making in the whole two hundred thirty eipht
dollars and FIFTY cents, to be paid by the Black
stone Caral Corporation. To Susan Chase,
who has a life estate in ono half acre of land
overlooked by said pond, we award the sum of
six dollars. To Thaddeus Chase we award no.
thing, his damages being considered under
Warrant, dated July 10, 1927 To Daniel Rice
we award nothing in damages. Asa and Lyman
Goodell claim no damages under this Warrant
and we award them none
In al cases where we have awarded no dam
ages, we have considered the benefits and adj.
vantages accruing to such claimants, BY the To-
cation and construction Of the Canal, full
equivalent. All which is respectfully submitted
TO the Hon. County Commissioners for the
County of Worcester.
NATH'L. P. DENNY.
WILLIAM CRAWFORD, Jr.
SAMUEL DAMAN."
WORCESTER, IS. September 10, 1928. / GER
THY that the foregoing is Copy of the Order of
the County Commissioners onnn the Rannrl nf