The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1831-1858, 1832-07-11
CANAL NOTICE.

WHEREAs, at meeting of the County
Wv Commissioners, holden at Worcester
within and for the County of Worcester, on the
fourth Tuesday of March last past the under
signed were appointed Commissioners to esti
mate all damages, which any person or persons
corporation or corporations may sustain in thelI
dams, lands, or privileges. by reason of the 10
cation of the following described mill dams, foI
The purposes in said locations mentioned and
for the purpose of complying with the provis
ions in the charter of said Company, to give
Them title to said property; provided said Ca
nal or any branch feeder thereof, or basin
dam, wharf, or other appendage or appartenant
be constructed thereon, viz " A location to in.
crease the reservoir at the Blackstone Factory
SO called, in Mendo1 in said County, by main.
tanning four feet OF dam on the top of the dam
Of the Blackstone Manufacturing Company
across the Blackstone River above their stone
mill in said Mendon, for ever with the right oil
keeping up at all times a head of water in said
:eservoir within one foot of the top of said dam
SO increased in height, unless one foot of reser
voir from the top OF said dam should prove in.
sufficient to hold the water running in said
river, so as to prevent the same from running
TO waste; in which case, the mill owners may
always draw the same down so much farther as
may be necessary for that purpose. Also, with
right in said Canal Company to draw from
said reservoir so much water as may be neces.
sary at all times for the purpose Of navil alton
therefrom, into the river below. Also. with
the right OF drawing down the reservoir for The
purpose of repairs, which are TO he done with
all necessary and reasonable dispatch. Also
with the right of navigating said reservoir as
part Of the Canal ofsaid Company"
Also, the dam belonging 10 Welcome and
Darius D. Farnum, on the Blackstone River
above their Factory, in the town of Mendon in
the County of Worcester, Cor reservoir, and
to aid the navigation. The height 10 which
the right to maintain said dam is desired is four
feet and sixty-four and half hundredths of a
foot above the lower mitre sill of the first lock
above, which point is eighty-six hundredths Of
u foot below the top Of two bolts in a rock on
the west side or bank of the Blackstone River
nbont twenty five rods above said dam"
"The persons interested in the above loca
lions, as far as they are known, are tho mem.
bcrs of the Blackstone Manufacturing Compa-
ny, viz Thomas P. Ives, Nicholas Brown, Ed.
ward Darlington, Moses Ives, Robert H
Ives, John C. Brown, Cyrus Butler, Sarah -,
and Stephen Trip. Also, Welcome and Da.
RUS ID. Farnum"
Notice is therefore hereby given, to all the
persons and Corporations aforesaid, that the un.
dersgned Commissioners as aforesaid, will
commence their view and estimate OF damages
us aforesaid. at the dam of the Blackstone Man.
ufaeturng Company aforesaid in Mendon afore.
said. on TUESDAY, the Seoenth day of August
neIt, at nine of the clock in the forenoon and
will continue their view until both the loca lions
aforesaid shall have been sufficiently viewed for
The purpose of estimating the damages afore
said.
Notice is also hereby given, 10 all persons and
Corporations, interested in the foregoing iora
TONS that they mrst file their several claims
for damages with some one ofthe Commission.
crs, or with the Clerk of the County Commits.
sioners aforesaid, within thirty days fl.m the
fourth day Of July next, or they will be barred
Of all right to claim damages afterwards.
NATH'L. P. DENNY,
WILLIAM CRAWFORD, Jr., Com'rs.
SAMUEL DAMON,
June 81, 1882 26