The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1831-1858, 1832-02-22
To the Hon. the Commissioners,

TOT inc County OF w orceSter, now IN session,
at Worcester, in said County:
HNHE Blackstone Canal Company represent,
E that they have, pursuant TO law, located
the following described Mill Dams for the pur-
poses herein mentioned, and now ask leave to
place said locations on the files of the Court, to
the end all measures necessary in compli-
ance with the charter of said Company, to give
them title to said property Tor the use Intended,
may be adopted, viz:
location to increase the Reservoir at the
Blackstone Factory, so called, in MeDdon, in
said County, by maintaining four feet of dam
on top of the dam of the Blackstone Manufac-
| turing Company, across the Blackstone River,
above their Stone Mill, in said Mendon, for
ever, with the right of keeping up, at all times,
a head of water, in said Reservoir, within one
foot of the top of said dam SO increased in
height, unless one foot of Reservoir from the top
of said dam should prove insufficient 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 further as shall be necessary for that pur-
pose. Also, with a ri ght in said Canal Compa.
ny to draw from said Reservoir, SO much water
as may be necessary at all times for the pur-
poses of navigation therefrom into the river be-
| low. Also, with the right Of drawing down
said Reservoir, for the purpose OF necessary re-
pairs, which are to be done with all reasonable
despatch. Also, with the right of navigating
said Reservoir, as part of the Canal of said
Company.
Also, the dam belonging to Welcome and
Darius ID. Farnum, on the Blackstone River,
above them Factory, in the town of Mendon, in
the County of Worcester, for Reservoir and
to aid the navigation. The height TO which
the right to maintain said dam is desired, is four
feet and sixty -four and a half hundredths of
foot above the lower mtre sill of the first lock
above, which point is eighty,s;x hundredths Of a
foot below the top of two bolts in a rock on the
west side or bank Of the Blackstone River about
twenty five rods above said dam.
The persons interested in the above locations,
so far as known, are the members of the Black
stone Manufacturing Company, viz: Thomas
P Ives, Nicholas Brown, Edward Carrington
Moses B. Ives, Robert H. Ives, John G. Brown
Cyrus Butler, William Butler, Sarah and Ste
phen Trip. Also, Welcome and Darius d.
Farnum.
The said Canal Company pray, that such
measures may be adopted as to ascertain the
damage and complete the location of said dams
and reservoirs for said purposes, pursuant to
the law in such case provided.
STEPHEN II. SMITH, Comm'rs Of the
JOHN DAVIS, BLackne c. Co..
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Worcester, SIS. At meeting of the County
Commissioners, begun and holden at Wor-
cester, within and for the County of Worces-
ter, on the fourth Tuesday of December, A.
ID. 1881:
On the petition and locations aforesaid Or
dered, That the petitioners notify all persons
and corporations interested in the locations
therein mentioned and described to appear be.
. fore said County Commissioners, at a meeting
thereof, to be holden at Worcester aforesaid,
on the fourth Tuesday of March next, by caus-
ing an attested copy of said petition and loca.
tons, and Of this order thereon, to be published
a in The Massachusetts, Spy,'' newspaper
i printed in said Worcester, and in the " Proui
dence Daily Journal,"a newspaper, printed in
Providence, in the State of Rhode Island anc
Providence Plantations Cat the expense of saic
n Company,) three weeks successfully, the las
i publication TO be fourteen days, at least, before
!. the meeting of said Commissioners, that al
!. persons and corporations interested therein, ma,
then and there be heard, il they see cause, upor
any matters or things relative to the petition
= and locations aforesaid.
Attest: ABIJAH BIGELOW, Cicrk.
A copy of the petition, locations, and orde
thereon.
s Attest; ABIJAH BIGELow, Clerk