Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-03-22
TO the Honorable the Senate and House of Rep

10 nee Ho11orG6Ge TIE senate and House of Rep
reSentdtiUeS in General Court assembled =
EENHE Petition of the City of Worcester respectfully rem
resents, that there is great and increasing demand
for an additional supply of pure water for the of the
City in the extngushment of fires and other purposes
and for the general of the inhabitants and that such
additional supply be obtained the sources to
which resort it now had but must be sought for in
still more distant And your petitioners further represent
that an adequate supply of be had either from
the Henshaw Pond, called, situated in Leicester and
about five miles from the City Hail. in said City, from
the Tatnic Brook, so called, running through
the western part the city the waters 10 be taken from
convenient point in said about miles above
the village of Tatnic and about four miles from the City
Hail. at which point large reservoir may be conveniently
constructed for collecting and storing up the waters Of the
stream.
And your petitioners further sbe that thew are DESTROYS
Of obtaining authority from the Legislature for furnishing
the city with supply Of water from the other Of
these sources at the election of the city, being yet
definitely ascertained to which it will be ex
pedient to resort for the supply required.
Wherefore your petitioners pray for the passage of
act comforting upon the city the right to be exercised by
its City Council to take hold and convey by aqueduct
to be constructed at the expense Of the city, the waters Of
said IIenshaw Pond Or if the City Council shall so elect
instead thereof the waters of the Tatnic Brook from
reservoir to be constructed the point in said above
mentoned and to erect and maintain dams raise and
retain the waters of said pond brook and make and
maintain all necessary reservoirs to flow lands and to take
and hold by purchase or otherwise any lands real estate
that may be necessary for laying and maintaining said
aqueduct and for furnishing such supply as are-
said Tor the use OF the city and in general to do all such
accomplishing said object And they further ask that for
the purpose of defyng all the and expenses of said
lands, estates, water and water rights be aken
purchased and held and constructing said aqueduct and
works necessary for the accomplishment said object as
well as for the payment Of all such damages may be
tanned in and about the premises the City Council may
authorized by said to grant, raise and appropriate
from time to time, such of money may be
~ therefor in the money granted raised
and appropriated for other city purposes and that they
may also be authorized for that purpose from time time
to borrow money and issue notes, scrip certificates
debt to limited amount bearing interest rate not ex
eeeng the legal rate Of interest this Commonwealth
and payable at given number of years from the issuing
thereo and that they be empowered sell the same
from time to time, at public private sale, pledge the
same for money borrowed for the purposes aforesaid on
such terms and conditions the City Council shall Judge
proper And they further ask that provision may be in
serted in such act that all damages that may sustained
by any person by the taking of any land rights
by the flowing of his land by the constructing or
maintaining Of said aqueduct and works. occsioed by
any act or thing done in the execu ton of said work. may
be assessed To the party injured in the prescribed
in the acts providing for the support and regulation Of
Mills and that provision may also be inserted that said
act shall be null and void if majority of the legal voters
Of the city shall vote not to accept the same.
By order and in behalf of the City Council
(Sgned.) JOHN S. G. KN0WLTnN.
Worcester, Feby 81, 1854. Mayor