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Willard A. Bullard Twenty three hundred dollars $2300 .- Emily .A. Heard Two hundred dollars $ 200 .- $2000 .-
Mrs. G. H. Egan
Two thousand dollars
And the said Commissioners further order and determine that the sum of fifteen hundred dollars is a fair and just proportion of the expenses of said alterations to be paid by the County: and said sum shall be paid out of the County Treasury into the Town Treasury of Wayland whenever the Selectmen of said town shall present a certificate certifying that all claims by reason of said alterations have been settled and said street shall be completed to the acceptance of said Commissioners,
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And the said Commissioners further determine and order that the said Town of Wayland shall pay all damages, costs and expenses (if any) not included in the above award, that any party may by legal process obtain in consequence of said alterations throughout the whole of said highway as hereby widened, straightened, altered and established. And the said Commissioners further order that the highway described in said return be, and the same is hereby established as and for a public highway, and that the same be recorded to the end that the same may hereafter be known as such. And the said Commissioners further order, that the said several sums of money estimated as damages to the said persons by reason of the premises be paid to them respectively out of the Town Treasury of Wayland when they shall present to the Town Treasurer of Wayland a certificate signed by the Selectmen of the town in which the land lies that the land over which said highway is located has been entered upon and possession taken for the purpose of constructing said highway.
In Witness Whereof, we the said County Commissioners have hereunto set our hands this fourteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety.
J. Henry Read William S. Frost Sam. O. Upham
A true copy of record
Attest
Wm. C. Dillingham Asst. Clerk
A true Copy
Attest
R. T. Lombard Town Clerk
Mitchell Street
We the Selectmen of Wayland in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, having been petitioned to lay out a town way to be called Mitchell Street: over land of Mrs. M. Underwood and others and having complied with the requirements of law in regard to notifying the owners of land of said Street, have laid out such Town way as follows :- Beginning at a bound on the Northerly side of the Plains Road at the Southwesterly corner of land of A. O. Dunham, thence running N. 34º20' E. by land of A. O. Dunham, P. Levitt, M.M. Riley and King St. (so called) four hundred and sixty nine and one half (4692) feet to a bound at land of John Hurley.
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The above described line is the easterly line of said Street and the westerly line is paralled thereto and forty (40) feet disant throughout its entire length. After due hearing we have made the following awards for land damage.
Mrs. M. H. Underwood
one cent
A. L. Cormier one cent A. O. Dunham one cent Peter Levitt one cent M. M. Riley one cent
And we respectfully report such town way for acceptance and allowance. . For full description of above described Street, see plan attached to this report, which plan is hereby made a part of said report.
James A. Bent ) Willard B. Ward ) Wayland Wayland Feby 20th, 1891 Plan attached.
Harry W. Butler )
Selectmen of
Attest R. T. Lombard Town Clerk.
The above described way was duly accepted by the town at its Annual Town Meeting held March 23rd, 1891 Attest Rich. A.T. Lombard Town Clerk.
King Street
We the Selectmen of Wayland in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts having been petitioned to lay out a town way, to be called King Street, over land of Mary H. Underwood and others and having complied with the requirements of law in regard to notifying the owners of land of said Street and abuttors thereto, have laid out such town way as follows, to wit :- Beginning at a bound on the westerly side of the Main Road leading from Cochituate village to Wayland Center at the Northeasterly corner of land of Leonard O. Whitman, thence running N. 78º58' W. by land of said Leonard O. Whitman and William M. Fullick to a bound two hundred and eighty three and six tenths (283.6) feet from said Main Road: thence N. 55°20' W. by land now or late of William M. Fullick and Catherine A. Riley and M. M. Riley to a bound at Mitchell Street. (so called) three hundred and Seventy Seven (377) feet from the second described bound. The above described line is the South line of said Street and the North line is paralled thereto and forty feet distant throughout its entire length. And after due hearing we have awarded to the following persons land damages as below.
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Mary H. Underwood Leonard 0. Whitman
Twenty five dollars
one cent one cent
William M. Fullick
Catherine A. Riley Michael M. Riley Albert F. King
one cent
one cent
one cent
Alexis Tatro John Hurley
one cent one cent
and we respectfully report such town way for acceptance by the Town. For full description of above described Street see plan attached to this report which is hereby made a part thereof.
Harry W. Butler )
James A. Bent )
Selectmen of
Willard B. Ward ) Wayland
Wayland Feby 20, 1891
A true Copy Attest R. T. Lombard Town Clerk
The above described road was duly accepted by the Town at its annual Town Meeting held March 23d, 1891.
Attest Richd T. Lombard Tovm Clerk
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex ss. At a meeting of the County Commissioners for the County of Middle- sex at Lowell within and for the said County on the first Tuesday of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety one, Edward Pousland and others. Inhabitants of Wayland in said County by their petition to said Commissioners, among other matters, pray for the relocation of Boston Road in said Wayland as will more fully appear, reference being had to the petition filed of record in the case.
The petition was presented to the County Commissioners, at their meeting holden at Cambridge within and for said County, on the first Tuesday of June A.D. 1891 when and where said Commissioners caused notice to be given to all persons and corporations interested therein of the time and place when and where they would meet for the purpose of viewing the premises and hearing the parties as by their order of notice on file and of record in the case will more fully appear. And on the 28th day of July A. D. 1891 said Commissioners adjudged said alteration to be of common convenience and necessity, and thence said petition hath been continued to this time. And now the said Commissioners make return of their proceedings in the premises as follows :- The County Commissioners for said County, having given notice as the law directs met at the Selectmens room in Wayland in said County on the eleventh day of September in the year eighteen hundred and ninety one, when and where the parties appeared, to wit :- the petitioner by
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Warren G. Roby and the respondent by S. D. Reeves. And the premises having been examined, and all parties fully heard said Commissioners proceeded to lay out said Boston Road as prayed for in said petition and the following & scrip- tion is a true description of said Boston Road as hereby laid out and ordered. The northerly line beginning at a stone bound in the northerly line of the old road one hundred ninety four and four tenths (194.4) feet westerly of the line of the westerly side of the house of Harriett Lee produced to line of old road thence on a curve of three hundred sixty and ninety eight hundredths (360.98) feet radius bearing to right one hundred sixty six and eighty five hundredths (166.85) feet to a stone bound, thence N. 46º52' W. two hundred forty two and thirty three hundredths (242.33) feet to a stone bound, thence on a curve of seven hundred forty three and seven tenths (743.7) feet radius bearing to the left seven hundred thirty four (734) feet to a stone bound, thence So. 76º34'W. five hundred twenty five feet and eighteen hundredths (525,18) feet to e stone bound, thence on a curve of twenty seven hundred seventy one (2771) feet radius bearing to the right one hundred ninety nine and ninety 1 ve hundredths (199.95) feet to a stone bound, thence S. 80º42' W. one hundred sixty and forty two hundredths (160.42) feet to a stone bound, thence on a curve of seventy five and two tenths (75.2) feet radius bearing to the right one hundred six and nine tenths (106.9) feet to a stone bound in the easterly line of Main St. The Southerly line beginning at a Stone bound opposite the point of beginning of said northerly line and fifty (50) feet distant therefrom, thence parallel to and fifty (50) feet distant from the above described northerly line to a point opposite the beginning of the third curve in the said northerly line, thence S. 76°34'W. three hundred eighty eight and fifty five hundredths (388.55) feet to a stone bound, thence on a curve of fifty five and and eighty eight hundredths (55.88) feet radius bearing to the left eighty four and three tenths (84.3) feet to a stone bound in the Easterly line of said Main Street.
The above courses are reckoned from the magnatic meridian, The above description is intended to conform to a plan of the same drawn by Chas. Mills and dated 1891 on which the above described lines are shown in red.
And the said Commissioners determine and order that the inhabitants of the said Town of Wayland shall on or before the first day of October which will be in the year 1892, lay open, construct and complete said highway so that twenty five feet in width thereof throughout the whole, exclusive of gutters on the sides shall be safe and convenient for the passage of teams of every descrip- tion with customary loads. The centre of the travelled part shall be the centre of the location. The form and manner of construction shall be as follows: All obstructions shall be removed from every part of the same to the width aforesaid: and so shaped that the centre shall be twelve inches higher than the sides by a circular, curved surface, all small inequalities shall be reduced to a level, or a regularly inclined plane, and greater rises and hills to an angle not exceed- ing three 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 three feet: and ten inches on the surface of the whole part to be travelled upon shall consist of gravel or other material which shall be permanently hard: and permanent stone monuments shall be placed at each end, and at each angle in said described line.
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Where excavations are necessary, the banks on the sides shall not make a greater angle than forty five degrees with the horizon: railings shall be erected at all steep and dangerous places: and all walls and fences removed to the new lines of street: and the whole shall be done in a workmanlike manner to the acceptance of said Commissioners. And the proprietors or occupants of the land over which said highway is thus laid out, are allowed until the first day of December next to remove therefrom any wood, timber or trees. And said Commis- sioners 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 as follows, to wit: Willard A. Bullard Two hundred dollars $200 .- And the said Commissioners further determine and order that the said Town of Wayland shall pay all damages, costs and expenses (if any) not included in the above award, that any party may by legal process obtain in con- sequence of said alterations, throughout the whole of said highway, as hereby widened, straightened, altered and established.
And the said Commissioners further order that the highway described in said return be, and the same is hereby established. as and for a public Highway, and that the same be recorded to the end that the same may hereafter be known as such. And the said Commissioners further order that the said several sums of money estimated as damages to the said persons, by reason of the premises be paid to them respectively out of the Town Treasury of Wayland when they shall present to the Town Treasurer of Wayland a certificate signed by the Seleotmen of the town in which the land lies, that the land over which said highway is located has been entered upon and possession taken for the purpose of constructing said highway. In Witness Whereof we the said County Commissioners have hereunto set our hands this twenty seventh day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety one.
J. Henry Read William S. Frost Sam'1 0. Upham
A true copy of record Attest Wm. C. Dillingham
Asst. Clerk
A true Copy Attest
Rich . T. Lombard. Town Clerk
Recorded Oct. 30, 1891.
£
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Pleasant Street.
We the undersigned Selectmen of the Town of Wayland have, for the convenience and accomodation of the inhabitants of said Town, after due notice to all interested parties as required by law, laid out a Town Way and established bounds thereto as follows,
Beginning at. a Stone bound at the Southeasterly corner of land owned by Mrs. C. Copithorn and on the Westerly side of German Hill Road, thence running N. 61º-00 W. four hundred and eighteen and three tenths (418 3/10) feet by land of Mrs. C. Copithorn, M. Garfield, T. Fiske and Louis Champign: to a bound at land of H. Dudley, Thence N. 51º12' W. one hundred and thirty and three quarters (130 3/4) feet to a bound on land of Alvin Bent.
Said Street to be upon the Northerly side of the above described line and to be forty (40) feet in width in every part thereof.
Damages have been awarded the Several abbuters as follows.
To O. W. Harris
one cent
= Mrs. C. Copithorn
one cent
M. Garfield one cent
= Thomas Fiske one cent
= Louis Champigni
one cent
= H. Dudley
one cent
= Mrs. Irene Dudley
one cent
F. Marston
one cent
11 Alvin Bent
one cent
=
J. Burke
one cent
11 Thomas Naylor
one cent
W. A. Bradshaw one cent
one cent
= = S. Underwood
Mrs. R.T. Richards
one cent
which street when by your vote accepted shall ever after be a Town Way under the name of Pleasant St.
Thomas W. Frost
David P.W. Loker )
Selectmen of
Daniel D. Griffin) Wayland
Wayland June 8, 1895.
A true Copy Attest.
Richª. T. Lombard .Town Clerk
Under Article 10, in a Town Warrant dated July 2, 1895, and Town meeting held July 15, 1895, said way was accepted by vote of the Town. Attest
Richd. T. Lombard Tomm Clerk 1
avasant Street
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex ss.
At a meeting of the County Commissioners for the County of Middlesex, holden at Cambridge within and for said County on the first Tuesday of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety six.
The Selectmen of Sudbury in said County by their petition to said Commissioners - among other matters - pray for the relocation of the Boston Road so called from Sluice by George Taylors at line between Sudbury and Wayland to foot of Sand hill so called in Wayland and Sudbury Meadows as will more fully appear, reference being had to the petition filed of record in the case.
The petition was presented to the County Commissioners, at their meeting holden at Cambridge, within and for said County, on the first Tuesday of June A.D. 1895, when and where said Commissioners caused notice to be given to all persons and corporations interested therein of the time and place when and where they would meet for the purpose of viewing the premises and hearing the parties as by their order of notice on file and of record in the case will more fully appear.
On the seventeenth day of December last upon amendment of said petition said Commissioners again caused notice to be given to all persons and corporations interested therein of the time and place when and where they would meet for the purpose of viewing the premises and hearing the parties as by their order of notice on file and of record in the case will more fully appear, and thence said petition was continued to this time, and now said Commissioners adjudge said relocation to be of common convenience and necessity and make return of their proceedings in the premises, as follows: The County Commissioners for said County, having given notice as the law directs, met at the So. Sudbury Station of the Central Mass. R. R. in Sudbury in said County, on the Sixteenth day of April in the year eighteen hundred and ninety six, when and where the parties appeared, to wit, the petitioner by Walter Adams, Esquire, Attorney and Nahum Goodnow, Chairman of the Selectmen of Sudbury and no person appeared to object.
And the premises having been examined and all parties fully heard said Commissioners proceeded to relocate said road as prayed for in said petition and the following description is a true description of said road as hereby laid out and ordered.
The Southerly line beginning at a point marked by a stake on the Southerly side of said road said stake being distant Southerly four and sixty eight hundredths (4.68) feet from the Stone monument marking the most westerly boundary line between the towns of Sudbury and Wayland, thence S. 76º E. nineteen hundred twelve and eight tenths (1912.8) feet to a point marked by a stake, thence S. 80º33' E. five hundred nineteen and fourteen hundredths (519.14) feet to a point marked by a stake: to this last mentioned point and northerly line is parallel to said Southerly line and forty nine and five tenths (49.5) feet distant therefrom. Then beginning at the point last mentioned and running at right angles to the last mentioned course S. 9026' W. twenty four and seventy five hundredths (24.75) feet to a point marked by a stake thence S. 80º33' E. three hundred and thirty (330) feet to a point marked by a stake. The northerly line opposite to the last mentioned course is parallel to it and ninety nine (99) feet distant therefrom. Then beginning at the last mentioned point and running at right angles to the last mentioned course N. 9. 26' E. sixteen and five tenths (16.5) feet to a point marked by a stake. The northerly line opposite to the last mentioned course is parallel to it, and sixty six (66) feet distant therefrom.
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The above courses are reckoned from the magnetic meridian, and the description is intended to conform to a plan of the same made by F. H. Kendall and dated 1895 on which the above described lines are shown in red.
And the said Commissioners determine and order, that the inhabitants of the said Towns of Sudbury and Wayland shall on or before the first der of Septem- ber which will be in the year 1896 lay open and construct, and complete said high- way so that twenty feet in width thereof throughout the whole, exclusive of gutters on the sides, shall be safe and convenient for the passage of teams of every des- cription, with customary loads. The centre of the travelled part shall be the centre of the location. The form and manner of construction shall be as follows: All obstructions shall be removed from every part of the same to the width afore- said : and so shaped that the centre shall be ten inches higher than the sides by a circular, curved surface : all small inequalities shall be reduced to & level, or a regularly inclined plane, and greater rises and hills, to an angle not exceeding 2 2/3 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 three feet: and eight inches on the surface of the whole part to be travelled upon shall consist of gravel or other material which shall be permanently hard: and permanent stone monuments shall be placed at each end and at each angle in said described line.
Where excavations are necessary, the banks on the sides shall not make a greater angle than thirty four degrees with the horizon: railings shall be erected at all steep and dangerous places: and all walls and fences removed to the new lines of street, and the whole shall be done in a workmanlike manner to the acceptance of said Commissioners. And the proprietors or occupants of the land over which said highway is thus laid out, are allowed until the first day of June next to remove therefrom any wood timber or trees. And said 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 determined that no damages are sustained and none are awarded.
And the said Commissioners further determine and order that the sum of one thousand (1000) dollars is fair and just proportion of the expenses of said alterations to be paid by the County: and of said sum three hundred (300) dollars shall be paid out of the County Treasury into the Town Treasury of Sudbury whenever the Selectmen of said town shall present a certificate certifying that all claims by reason of said alterations in said town have been settled and said road shall be completed in said town to the acceptance of said Commissioners: and the sum of seven hundred (700) dollars shall be paid into the Town Treasury of Wayland whenever the selectmen of said town shall present a certificate certifying that all claims by reason of said alterations have been settled, and said road shall be completed in said town to the acceptance of said Commissioners.
And the said Commissioners further determine and order that if there be any damages, costs and expenses that any party may by legal process obtain in consequence of said alterations, the said towns of Wayland and Sudbury shall pay such charges as may be due to said alterations within the respective limits of said towns.
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And the Commissioners further order that the highway described in said return be, and the same is hereby established as and for a public highway and that the same be recorded to the end that the same may hereafter be known as such.
In Witness Whereof, we the said County Commissioners have hereunto set our hands this second day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand sight hundred and ninety six.
J. Henry Read Sam'1 0. Upham Francis Bigelow
A true Copy of record
Attest
Ralph N. Smith Ass"+ Clerk
Attest
Richd. T. Lombard Town Clerk
"French St."
We the undersigned Selectmen of Wayland have for the convenience and accommodation of the inhabitants of said Town after due notice to all interested as required by law laid out a Town Way and established bounds thereto as follows. Beginning at a bound at the northeasterly corner of land omed by W. C. Neal and on the Southerly side of the Auburndale Road, thence running S. 46º - 30' E. by land of W. C. Neal and land of the Westboro Savings Bank 191 5/10 feet to a Stone bound, thence N. 84º52' E. by land of said Bank and land of Joseph Gladu 251 85/100 feet to a stone bound, thence N. 85º41' S. by land of L. Cormier 132 2/10 feet to a stone bound, thence No. 89º18' E. by land of Genevieve Belmore 152 9/10 feet to land of F. J. Bigwood.
Said Street to be upon the easterly and northerly sides of the above described lines and to be 36 feet in width in every part thereof.
Damages have been awarded the several abutters as follows.
Lafayette Dudley one cent Alvinus Hersey one cent
W. C. Neal one cent
Westboro Savings Bank Joseph Gladu Lewis Cormier Genevieve Belmore
one cent
one cent
one cent
one cent
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Which street when by your vote accepted shall ever after be a Town way under the name of "French Street".
For full description see plan attached to this report.
All courses are magnetic.
Isaac Damon ) Selectmen Wayland.
Patrick A. Leary )
Wayland Nov. 27, 1897.
The Town voted to accept said report and Street as laid out by the Selectmen. Dec. 14th, 1897
Attest
Richd. T. Lombard Town Clerk
Winter St.
We the undersigned Selectmen of the Town of Wayland, have for the con- venience and accommodation of the inhabitants of said Town, after due notice to all interested as required by law, laid out a Town Way and established bounds thereto as follows. Beginning at a bound 36 88/100 feet easterly from the South- easterly corner of land owned by George W. Fairbanks on Lake Street in that part of Wayland called Cochituate, thence running N. 4º-41' E. by land of Mrs. H. M. Corey 1962 feet to a bound, thence N. 10ºE. by land of said Mrs. H. M. Corey and Chester B. Williams and a private way 315 1/10 feet to a bound. Said street to be upon the Westerly side of the above described lines and to be 40 feet in width over the second course and 40 feet in width at the end of the first course and decreasing in width so that its width at Lake Street shall be 36 88/100 feet. We have awarded damages to the Several abuttors as follows.
Mrs. H. M. Corey one cent one cent George W. Fairbank C. B. Williams one cen's J. Moore
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