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To the Honorable the County Commissioners of
<br /> the County of Middlesex:
<br /> THE subscriber,inhabitants of the town of Lex,
<br /> ington and Burlirgton, in said County, re-
<br /> spectfrdly represent, that the pn'alic convenience
<br /> and necessity require that a rew roan Le located:
<br /> and built in said town of Lexington, cemmencing
<br /> at a point on the main road or. street loldirg flow
<br /> West Cambridge in said Conwy to Lexington,
<br /> centre,near the depot of the Lexington anti Wtst
<br /> Cambridge Railroad, at said Lexington, and
<br /> between the dwelling house on the estate late of R.
<br /> Meriam,deceased,and that of Mrs. Muzzy,and.
<br /> from hence running northeasterly and northerly
<br /> aaross the lands of the heirs of said Meriam and of
<br /> said Meriam Estate, of Airs.Mazzy,Gorham Big-
<br /> elow, Abiaab W.Farrer,L. Turn vr,H. A. lion=
<br /> mer,.and to or near lands of N.Nlulliken to or near;
<br /> the house late of H.Read; thence over lands of J.
<br /> Fisk to a point on the main road leading fiom Lex-
<br /> ington to Burlington.in said County near the dwell-
<br /> •ing house late of Wm.P. Gibbs of said Lexington,
<br /> deceased.
<br /> And your petitioners further represent that said
<br /> road would connect immediately with the road ftcm
<br /> Waltham to said Lexington thereby loaning a mote
<br /> direct and easy communication between Walthar,
<br /> and Burlington through said Lexington,and great_,
<br /> Iq facilitating the means of travel and transporta
<br /> tion. �
<br /> Wherefore your petitiouers•pray that said road
<br /> between a points,&c.,as aforesaid,described,be
<br /> d out and built as a public highway;, and such
<br /> other action be taken in the premises Ds to your
<br /> Honorable Board may seem meet and proper,and
<br /> as to duty bound will ever pray, &c,
<br /> A.W.FARRAR, and 101 others.
<br /> August,1853.
<br /> Commonwealth of Massachusetts,_
<br /> IDDLESEX SS. At a meeting of the
<br /> County Commissioners for said County of j
<br /> Middlesex,at Concord,in said County,on the first t
<br /> Tuesday of September, in the year eighteen bun-
<br /> ared and fifty-three. f On the foregoing petition, Ordered, that the
<br /> Sheriff of said County,or his Deputy, give notice
<br /> to all persons and corporations interested therein,.
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<br /> that said Commissioners will meet 'for the purpose. III��rrr�//'rJ
<br /> of viewing the premises and hearing the parties at f
<br /> the Lexington House,in Lexington,on Monday the,
<br /> twenty-fourth day of October next,at ten o'clock
<br /> in the forenoon,by serving the Town Clerk of Lex-
<br /> ington with a copy of said petition and this wee,
<br /> thereon,thirty days at. least before said view,ane ,t
<br /> ky publishing the same in the).Lowell Weekly Amer-
<br /> lean,a newspaper,printed at Lowell,three weeks
<br /> successively,the last publication to be fourteen days
<br /> at least before said view,and also by posting the
<br /> same in two public places in Lexington, fourteen
<br /> days before said view; and that he make return of
<br /> his doings herein, to said Commissioners, at the,
<br /> time and place fixed for said view and hearing.
<br /> Attest. M.PRESTON,Assistant Clerk.
<br /> Copy of Petition and Order therein,
<br /> Attest. M.P'AESTON,Assistant i5lerh.,
<br /> A Copy Attest. LEVI PARKER,D.Sheriff.
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