The Press., 1892-12-08
NOTICE is hereby given that applics 1N tiOn will be made to the next General Al

NOTICE is hereby given that applica- IN tion will be made to the next General As sembly for charter pursuant to the following
 To the 'General Assembly of the State of Con- necticut: The subscribers respectfully petition the Legislature Of the State for an act Of 1ncor- poration incorporating the Rockville. Stafford and South bridge rramWay Company" with such powers as are usually conferred upon tramWay companies, horse railroad companies, and cleo tric railway companies, to build, maintain and operate tramway or line of railway, or both, operated by any motive or propelling power, through the towns of Vernon, Holland, Ellington, of said tramway or line of railway, and the gen. eral location Of the same is as follows: , Beginning i at point in the city of Rockville in said town Of Vernon, near the station called "West Street" on the railway known as the Rock vile branch of the New York and New England railroad, thence in a general easterly direction to point in the city Of Rockville on OF near Market street in said city, thence through said Market street to Main street, and through Main street to point therein east of Bedding & Bros. silk manufactOry, or from said point at or near Market street through such lands or streets to said point east of Bedding Bros. silk manufac- tory as may be best adapted to meet said des- tinatton, thence in a general easterly direction through said town of Vernon to the Holland line to Holland or through the lands near and on either side of said highway, thence through the highway, OF the lands near and on either side thereof, to the village Of Square POnd or Crystal Lake, in the town of Ellington, thence from said village of Square Pond to the borough of Stafford Springs, in the town of Stafford in and through the highway leading from said village to West Stafford and Stafford Springs, or in and through the lands on either side thereof, or in the high way leading over the mountain from said Square Pond to StaT0r1 Springs, if that route be deemed better adapted than the aforesaid line through West Stafford, or through the lands on either mountain, to point on or near Main street in the borough Of Stafford Springs, thence in and through said Main street, or through the lands on either side thereof, to point on or near said Main street near the beginning Of the west end of what is known as East Main street, thence in the general east of north direction, on either side of the stream known as the east branch of the W1ll1manttc river, to the village of Furnace Hollow, in said town Of Stafford thence follow from Furnace Hollow to staaordSitle, either i9 said highway or in and through the lands on either side thereof, to said StaifordVtlle in said Stafford, thence in an eaSterly direction, in the highway leading from Stafordyille to Union, or on either side thereof, to point on or near said highway east of the lower reservoir. so called, ana to point near the highway leading from Stanordv1lle to Wales, in the state of MaSSachll- setts, thence in general northerly direction to northern line of the town of Stafford, in said last mentioned highway, or in and through the lands on either side thereof as may be most fitted and best adapted to reach said destination to a Massachusetts:
 Said tramway or railway line will cross the track Of the New York and New England rail- road in the city Of Rockville at or near said Mar ket street, and will cross the track of the New London Northern Railroad Company at point between SGauOru springs aforesaid and the sta ton on said line known as Orcutts.
 Said application and this petition also embody therein such rights, privileges and powers relat- ing to the building, maintaining and operating turn-outs, switches, side tracks and depots at such points along said proposed line as may be expedient to effectuate the interests and objects of said charter and the tramway constructed hereunder.
 And your petitioners, as in duty bound will ever pray.
 Dated at Stafford this 9th day of December, A. D. 1892.
 Signed,