Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-03

from the first section named consisting
 Of Merchants, Traders, large Manufac-
 turing and extensive Mechanical es-
 tablishments all very hourishing and
 prosperous in their pursuits and as
 they are more compactly settled, neces-
 sarily have wants and wishes incident
 10 their situation and such as tlriv-
 ing City requires. Here are Banks, respectable News Papers are publish'd
 6Sc., and while 1t may be very laudable and praiseworthy in the Citizens re-
 siding in that part of said town to adopt regulations and expend money to attain the objects which from their rapid accumulation of property and the continued prospective increase of in- hahitants are proper and suitable for them. Yet your petitioners being com paratively a scattered population and deriving their support generally from agriculture the gains from which are always small and now greatly reduced by its depressed state as Is well knowr to your honorable body, so that they feel 1t would not be consistent with that duty which all owe to their fam flies and to their Creditors to con- tribute towards defraying such extra ordinary expenses and they cannot do 1t with that prompt. .ess and cheerful ness with which they pay the Common and necessary expenditures for pau pers, bridges, roads. &c., &R. This leads to an array of one part of the town against the other and produces collisions which are greatly to be de- plored, and to prevent the recurrence, of which this petition is brought
 The state of things which now exi
 between the two sections of sd toy owing to their different pursuits al wants (and between which sections
 IS known to a part of your honourat body there is 8 natural division of u occupied sspace) has altogether pr, duced in the minds of your petitione conviction that the peace and ha' mony which should prevail in all con munities cannot be continued whl we remain as one town but that q interest and happiness of both sectioi would be greatly promoted by ( vision of said town of Norwich in two towns in such manner as VOL effect the object by separating the c part from the Country so that ca part could be letf to regulate their ol concerns unembarrassed by the other when we trust the good feelin among neighbors which recent exch ment has somewhat disturbed wou again return.
 To attain this end your petitionei . would respectfully describe the follow. ing line of division which they pray may be established as the boundary line between the two towns, Viz.-Be- ginning at the Falls on Shetucket river, which river divides sd town of Nor wich from the town of Lisbon, from thence running SoutherI- course, a straight line to the East Side of the dwelling house of Elijah Pitcher, Jun'r, thence running a straight line intep- secting the Main Street in sd Norwich to the south East corner of Widow Lucy Carew's house lot, thence west erly course straight line to the North End of Russell Huhbard's Paper Mill and from thence Straight line to where the road passing front of John Arnold Gifford's dwelling house inter- sects the road leading from Norwich Port to Bozrah Pond and thence a due west course to the division line be- tween said Norwich and the town of Bozrah. Your petitions residing North erly and Westerly of the apove de- scribed land and bounded bv the ad- joining towns of Bozrah, Franklin and Lisbon, although the smallest in num- Der of the two divisions of sd Nor wich would yet contain a population of nearly two thousand which is great CT than one half the number of towns in the state and in the list would be over $30,000 amount exceeding the av- craze amount of all the towns in the state about Eighty towns are less amount and more than twenty less than