2666 Report of action taken by the Middlesex County Commissioners in response to a petition to widen a road, third Tuesday in September, 1835

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AND THE SAID COMMISSIONERS determine and order,that the inhabitants of the town of being the town in which said highway is situated shall on or before the first day of <)t which will be in the year of our Lord 183 lay open, construct and complete said highway, so that twenty-fear feet in width thereof throughout the whole shall be safe and convenient for the passage of Oxen, Horses, Carts, Waggons, Carriages and Teams of every description with customary loads. The form and manner of construction shall be as follows: All stumps, stones, and other obstructions shall be removed from every part of the same to the width aforesaid; and so shaped that the centre shall be eighteen inches higher than the sides by a regularly curved surface; all small inequalities shall be reduced to a level, or a regularly inclined plane, ascending or descending, and greater rises and hills, to an angle not exceeding a degrees with the horizon: drains, sluices, and bridges constructed of stone, and of sufficient capacity, shall be made at all places necessary for conducting away the water; swampy and soft bottoms shall be raised at least -2 and /D inches on the surface of t"le whole part to be travelled upon, shall consist of gravel or other materials, which shall be permanently hard; where excavations are necessary, the banks on the sides shall not be left standing at a greater angle than A degrees with the horizon; railings shall be erected at al! steep and dangerous places: and the whole shall be done in a workmanlike manner, to the acceptance of said Commissioners. N� 4 OM 1119SIONER estimate the expense of/aking said li g vay in man r an o aforesaid And the proprietors or occupants of the lands, over which said highway is thus laid out, are allowed until the first day of A z?� _ — next to remove from the premises any wood, timber, trees, or other property not useful for the construction of said highway. AND SAIDD COMMISSIONERS having heard the proprietors of said lands by themselves or their agents, on the subject of damages by them sustained by reason of laying out said highway, have estimated the same at the sums respectively annexed to their several names,viz: INn WITNESS 'WHEREOF ,ee, :ht said County Commissioners, have.hereunto set our hands and seals this day y of A. D. 183 5 I Kl � --- 1X0 �� Arre