Chap. 0070 An act to incorporate certain proprietors of meadow lands lying on pequit brook, within the town of canton for the purpose of flowing & draining off the stagnant waters, & for the better improving the said lands. Sect. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate & House of Representatives in General Court Assembled, & by the Authority of the same, That from & after the passing of this Aet all the Proprietors of certain Meadow Lands adjoining on Pequit Brook between the road that leads from Canton to Stoughton, & upland owned by Capt. Archibald McKendry & Mr. Elijah Gill in the County of Norfolk be & they are hereby incorporated into a body Politic by the name of The Proprietors of Pequit Brook Meadows, & by that name may sue & be sued, & do & suffer all matters acts or things which bodies politic may or ought to do & sutler. Sect. 2. And be it further enacted, that any Justice of the Peace in the County of Norfolk be & he hereby is empowered & directed upon application in writing from five or more of said Proprietors to issue his warrant to one of the Proprietors aforesaid, requiring him to notify & warn a meeting of said Proprietors, at such time & place as he shall think most convenient & for the purposes to be expressed in said warrant by posting up copies of said warrant with the notification thereon at the houses of Public Worship in the towns of Canton & Stoughton seven days at least before the time for holding said Meeting & the said Proprietors when legally assembled as aforesaid shall have power to choose a Clerk, Committee, Assessors, Collector or Collectors of Taxes & Treasurer, who shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of the trust reposed in them & continue to serve until others are chosen & sworn in their places which may be annually, which officers chosen & sworn as aforesaid shall have the same power to perform, execute & carry any vote or order of said corporation into full effect as town officers of like description have by law to do & perform & said Corporation shall at their first meeting agree & determine upon the method for calling future meetings & said corporation shall at their first meeting, or any other meeting legally called for that purpose have power to vote & raise monies for the purpose of removing the bars & other shoal places in said Pequit Brook for the purpose of draining off the stagnant water from said Meadows from time to time as shall be found necessary for saving the grass growing thereon & for making & keeping in repair a Floom at the Dam where it has usually been in times past, & to pay all other expences that shall be found necessary for the better management thereof, & for carrying the votes & orders of said Corporation into effect. And all monies raised as aforesaid shall be assessed upon each Proprietor in the Meadows aforesaid in proportion to the number of acres, or the value thereof, he or she owns - And if any Proprietor shall refuse or neglect to pay the sum or sums assessed upon him, or her as aforesaid, after sixty days notice, so much of his, or her Meadow land shall be sold as will be sufficient to pay the same with legal costs in the same way & manner non-resident Proprietors lands in this Commonwealth are sold to pay taxes. Approved March 8, 1S02.