Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-12
LEGAL NOTICES..
Feb. LIP

o clock in the forenoon.
JAMES EARLY, Deputy Sheriff,
Feb, 11.12
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHU-
SETTS. S.-Worcester, IS. To the Superior
Court or any justice thereof sitting in
petitioners, selectmen of the town OF
Northbridge and of the town of Uxbridge,
county and state aforesaid, represent that
there is in the said town of Northbridge.
and in the town of UXbridge, a public way
running in an easterly and westerly di-
rectfon, a few feet southerly of the pas
senger station known as Whitins station,
IN said Northbridge, across the railroad
belonging to the Providence and Worces-
ter Railroad Company, corporation hav-
ing place of business in said Worcester.
now under lease for the term of ninety
nine years from December, A. D. 1892, to
the New York, New Haven and Hartford
railroad Company, a corporation having a
place of business in said Worcester, and
said railroad and said public way cross
each other at grade, and a part of sail
way covered by said crossing at grade ls
In the said town of Northbridge, and the
other part thereof is in the said town OF
UXbridge, and your petitioners are of the
opinion that it is necessary for the Sc
curity and convenience of the public that
an alteration should be made in such cross
ing, in the approaches thereto, in the loca-
ton of the railroad or the public way, or
In the grades thereof, so as to avoid a
crossing at grade.
Wherefore, your petitioners pray that,
after due notice and hearing, a commits
sion of three disnterested persons may
be appointed by said superior court, or
any justice thereof sitting in equity, to
hear and determine the matters herein set
forth, and all matters required of such
commissioners under the provisions Of
chapter 42S of the acts Of 1890 and the acts
in amendment thereof.
Dated this twenty-sixth day of February.
A. D. 1897.
]. v. PRENTICE,
ROBERT FOSTER
CHARLES e. POLLOCK.
p f. TAFT
FRANK S. PERRY.
Selectmen of Northbridge.
JOHN S. SAYLEs.
FRANK j. HAMILTON,
A. f. ALlDRICH,
selectmen of Uxbridge.
! The subscribers having been appointed a
commission, pursuant to the prayer Of the
foregoing petition, hereby give notice that
public hearing will be held upon the sub
ject matter of said petition in the railroad
station known as Whitins station, in said
Northbrldge, on SATURDAY, the TWEEN
TYo-SIXTH ,o6o day OF, FEBRUARY, a. D.
1898, at 11S0 o'clock In the forenoon, at
which hearing the parties interested there
IN may be present and be heard And it is
ordered that the petitioners give public
notice of said hearing by serving a true
copy of said petition, the foregoing notice
and order thereon upon the commonwealth
Of Massachusetts and the N. Y, N. II. &
~ a. n. =Sorporauon ten days at least
before the date Of said hearing and pub
lishing the same on two different dates in
the Worcester Daily Spy, paper circu-
lated in said Northbridge, the last pubIica-
ton to be at least five days before the date
Of said hearing, and posting like copies in
two public places in the towns Of said
Northbridge and Uxbidge. at least fve
days before the date of said hearing.
Dated the eighth day of FEBRUARY. 1893
ALPHEUS SANFORD.
EDWARD B. BISHOP
HARRY c. SOUTHWORTH,
~ .o Commissioners.