Chap. 0025 AN ACT FOR ERECTING SUFF[E]I[E]LD EQUIVALENT LANDS, COMMONLY CALLED GLASGOW, IN THE COUNTY OF HAMPSHIRE, INTO A TOWNSHIP BY THE NAME OF BLANDFORD.
A new town made called Blandford.
"Whereas it hath been represented to this court, by the inhabitants of Surf [e]i[c]ld equivalent lands, commonly called Glasgow, in the county of Hampshire, that they labour under great difficulties by reason of their not being incorporated into a township,?
Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor, Council and Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same,
[Sect. 1.] That the lands aforesaid be and hereby are erected into a separate and distinct township by the name of Blandford ; the bounds whereof arc as followeth ; vizt., beginning at a black birch, marked, with stones about it, being the south-east corner, and is near a small brook that runs into Westfield River, and on the west side of a steep, round mountain ; from thence, running west, twenty degrees north, one thousand nine hundred and forty-five rods, to a maple-tree, marked ; thence north, twenty degrees east, one thousand nine hundred and twenty rods, to a beach-tree, marked, with stones about it; from thence, east, twenty degrees south, one thousand nine hundred and forty-five rods, to a yellow-pine tree, marked, with stones about it; from thence, running south, twenty degrees west, one thousand nine hundred and twenty rods, to the bounds first mentioned.
[Sect. 2.] And that the inhabitants on the land aforesaid be and are hereby vested with all the powers, privile[d]ges and immunities which the inhabitants of other towns are or by law ought to be vested with.   [Passed and published April 10, 1741.