Chap. 0079 An act, in addition to an act entitled 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 and for the better improvement of said meadow lands. Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled and by the authority of the same, That from and after passing this Act, all the Meadow lands up Stream of a line beginning on Dedham side from Thorp's Bridge to the upland as the road now runs; thence on Canton side on the river bank below said bridge, until it passes by Francis Dean's Meadow, and a small piece of Meadow belonging to the heirs of Abner Ellis deceased until it comes to a ditch between land belonging to Isaac Gould and Nathaniel Johnson on One Side; and the heirs of Nathaniel Fisher deceased and Deacon John Holmes and Benjamin Lewis on the other side, until it comes to Francis Deans Swamp at the Southerly corner which is on the Canton side of the said Meadows, be and hereby are exempted from the operation of said Act of incorporation. Provided nevertheless, that nothing in this Act shall be construed to discharge [d] any of the proprietors of the lands exempted in this Act, from being holden to pay their proportion of all charges that have arisen by the operation of the Act to which this is an Addition. Approved March 11, 1802.