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Acts of the General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

1801 - Chapter 42.

AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE PLANTATION CALLED GOSHEN, OR WYMAN'S PLANTATION, IN THE COUNTY OF KENNEBECK, INTO A TOWN BY THE NAME OF VIENNA

 

SEC. 1ST. Be it enacted by the Senate, and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same that the tract of land as described in the following boundaries, in the County of Kennebeck, with the inhabitants thereon be, and they are hereby incorporated into a town by the name of Vienna, Beginning at the northeast corner of lot, number seventy three on the west line of Mount Vernon, on the west line of the Plymouth patent, thence northerly to the south east corner of New Sharon, thence westerly by the south line of New Sharon untill it strikes Gurdy's pond, thence southerly up Gurdys Brook or Stream, so called, and bounding thereon, to a large hemlock tree marked, near the mouth of Perry's stream, so called, thence south thirty nine degrees east one mile, and two hundred rods to Parker's Pond, thence easterly across said Pond to the northwest corner of said lot, number seventy three, thence easterly by the north line of said lot to the bound first mentioned: And the said town is hereby vested with all the powers, privileges and immunities to which other towns are entitled by the Constitution and Laws of this Commonwealth.

SEC. 2D. And be it further enacted that Jedediah Prescott esqr. be, and he hereby is authorized to issue his Warrant, directed to some suitable inhabitants of said Vienna, requiring him to notify and warn the inhabitants of the said Vienna, to meet at such convenient time and place as shall be expressed in said Warrant, to choose all such Officers as towns within this Commonwealth are by law required to choose in the months of March of April annually.

Approved February 20, 1802

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