The Press., 1892-12-15

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 Southbridge 'rramway Company" with such powers as are usually conferred upon tramway companies, horse railroad a 9P co9mPamies ana elec operate a tramway or line of railway, or both, operated by any motive or propelling power, Stafford in Holland County. The intended route of said tramway or line of railway, and the gen. eral location of the same is as follows: Beginning at point in the city Of Rockville, in said town of Vernon, near the station called West street 99 the railway knoTn n as the Rock o sfe se% to point in the city of Rockville on or near Market street in said city, thence through said street to a point therein east of Bedding Bros. silk manufactery, or from said point at or near Market street through such lands or streets to tory as may be best adapted to meet said des= tfnation, thence in a general easterly direction either in the highway leading from said Vernon | to Holland or through the lands near and on either side of said highway, thence through the 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 | RS,l It. 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 Stafford Springs, If that route be deemed better adapted than the aforesaid line through west Stafford, or through the lands on either | side of said highway last mentioned, over the the borough of stafford Springs, thence in and l 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 1n the general east of north direction, on either | side of the stream known as the east branch o1 the Willimant1c river, to the village of Furnace Hollow, in said town of Stafford thence follow. ing the general direction of the highway leading from Furnace Hollow to Stafordville, either tI | said highway or in and through the lands or either side thereof, to said StaffOrdvflle in said Stafford, thence in an eaSterly direction, in the hi ghway leading from Staf1ordville to Union, ol on either side thereof, to point on or near said | highway east of the lower reservoir, so called and to point near the highway leading from Staffordville to Wales, in the state of Massachu- 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 terminus on the line between said Stafford and
 ss ssd @ sv or y5 5ay es T Hass rs hf 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 Stanord Springs aforesaid and the sta. I lion on said line known as OrcHtts.
 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 sth day of December, | A. D. 1892.
 | Signed,