Chap. 0081 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE CERTAIN PROPRIETORS OF MEADOw LANDS LYING ON EACH SIDE OF NEPONSET RIVER IN THE TOWNS OF DEDHAM, MILTON, & CANTON, & FOR DRAWING OFF THE STAGNANT WATERS, & FOR THE BETTER IMPROVING SAID MEADOW LANDS. Sect. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate (13 House of Representatives in General Court assembled d3 by the Authority of the same, that from & after the passing this Act, All the proprietors of certain Meadow Lands lying on each side of Neponset River in the Towns of Dedham, Milton & Canton in the County of Norfolk included between two parallel Lines crossing said River & meadow lands, the upper Line being in the same direction & coinciding with the divisional Line between Canton & Sharon, & the other line crossing said River & Meadows at Paul's Bridge, so called, be & hereby are incorporated into a Body Politic by the name of the Proprietors of the Neponset River Meadows, & by that name may sue & be sued & do & suffer such Acts and things as Bodies Corporate may or ought to do or suffer; provided however, that this Act shall not include in this incorporation the following discription of Meadow lands lying between said Pare!lei Lines, to wit, the Meadow Lands owned hy Elijah Dunbar Esqr. & others proprietors of a Common Field in Canton, those belonging to the Heirs of Nathaniel Fisher to Henry Baily, Isaac Billing, Roger Billing, Nathaniel Sheppard, Jonathan Billing, John Taunt, Henry Crane, Israel Bailey, Ezekiel Fisher, William Crane, Lemuel Fisher, also the Meadow Lands belonging to the Heirs of Doctr. John Sprague, also all meadow Lands belonging to any Inhabitant of the Town of Milton also the Common Field in Purgatory Meadow, so called, & also all Meadow lands lying north of a line drawn from & in the same direction easterly with the south line of said Common field last mentioned to the upland ; Provided nevertheless, that it may be lawful for any of the Meadow lands aforesaid to be included in said Incorporation, whenever the owner or owners shall become proprietors of said incorporation, upon such terms & in such manner as said proprietors shall hereafter establish. Sect. 2d. Be it further enacted, that upon application of ten or more of said Proprietors made in writing to any Justice of the Peace for said County of Norfolk, said Justice is hereby authorized & impowered to issue his Warrant directed to one of said Proprietors to Notify & warn a Meeting of said Proprietors at such time & place & for such purposes as shall be expressed in said Warrant, which warrant & Notification thereon shall be published in one of the Boston Newspapers & shall also be posted up in some public Place in each of the Towns of Dedham & Canton ; each Publication aforesaid to be at least fourteen days before the time of Meeting. Sect. 3. Be it further enacted that said Proprietors at any legal meeting may agree upon the Mode of calling future meetings & shall have power & authority to vote, assess, collect & appropriate Monies for the purpose of draining & improving said Meadow Lands & may also choose a Clerk, Treasurer, Assessors & Collectors, who shall be sworn to the faithfnll discharge of their duty & shall continue in office untill others shall be chosen & sworn in their stead ; - which officers when sworn as aforesaid, may exercise the same power & authority in performing the duties of their Appointment, as Town Officers of the like Description. Approved March 3, 1798.