The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1831-1858, 1832-02-15
To the Hon. the Commissioners

tor the County of Worcester, now in session
at Worcester, in said County:
IHNHE Blackstone Canal Company renresen,
III 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 comnli.
ance with the charter of said COMPANY. IN give
them title to said property for 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,
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 ton
OF said dam should prove insufficient to hold the
water running in said river so as to prevent the
same IRON 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 right 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 CT drawing down
said Reservoir, for the purpose of necessary re-.
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 their Factory, in the town of Mendon, in
the County of Worcester, for 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-s;x hundredths of a
foot below the top of two bolts in 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 Darlington,
Muses. B. Ives, Robert H. Ives John C. 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 n. SMITH, Comm RS of the
JOHN DAVIS, SBiack'ne G. Co.
COMMONWEALTH OF MAssAcHUsErrs.
Worcester, SIS. At meeting of the County
Commissi oners, begun and holden at Wof-
cester, within and for the County of Worces-
ter, on the fourth Tuesday of December, A.
d. 1881
On the petition and locations aforesaid, Or
dercd, That the petitioners notify all persons
and corporations interested in the locations
therein mentioned and described, to aBpear be-
tore said County Commissioners, at a meeting
thereof, to be holden at Worcester aforesaid,