Session Laws

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

The deputy commissioner of capital planning and operations, acting for and on behalf of the commonwealth, is hereby authorized, in accordance with the provisions of sections forty E to forty J, inclusive, of chapter seven of the General Laws, in consultation with the metropolitan district commission, to convey by deed approved as to form by the attorney general, easements in certain parcels of land located in the town of Ashland, to Middlesex county, acting by and through its county commissioners for highway and drainage purposes. Said easements are shown on a plan entitled "Plan of land Ashland, Massachusetts, Fountain and Union Streets, prepared by Middlesex county engineering department dated April 1984". Said parcels being bounded and described as follows:

Parcel No. 1. An easement for highway purposes. Beginning at the southeasterly corner thereof at a point in the present northerly line of Union Street in a course bearing N.62<11'59"E., 271.74 feet in length as laid out and altered by the Massachusetts Department of Public Works in 1955 on behalf of the Town of Ashland; said point of beginning being located 93.47 feet distant southwesterly as measured from the northeasterly end of said course bearing N.62<11'59"E., 271.74 feet in length; the aforesaid course bearing N.62<11'59"E., in the present northerly side line of Union Street as laid out in 1955 shall for the purpose of this grant be considered to bear N.62<25'02"E.;

Thence S.62<25'02"W., by the present northerly side line of Union Street 59.59 feet to a point at the intersection of the said northerly line of Union Street and the present easterly line of Fountain Street in a course bearing N.04<45'E., 577.9 feet in length as laid out by the County Commissioners by their relocation of Fountain Street in 1892; said point of intersection being located 13.89 feet from the southwesterly end of the course bearing N.04<45'E., 577.9 feet in length; thence following the said present easterly side line of Fountain Street N.04<45'00"E., 123.00 feet to a point; thence in a general southeasterly direction on a curve of 170.00 feet radius, turning to the left 88.01 feet to a point; thence continuing in a southeasterly direction on a curve of 20.00 feet radius, turning to the left 32.35 feet to the point of ending and the beginning point first described in the present northerly line of Union Street - all as shown by the plan hereinbefore mentioned.

Containing according to said plan about 1,540 square feet.

Parcel No. 2. An easement for drainage purposes. Beginning at the northwesterly corner thereof at a point in the present southerly side line of Union Street in a course bearing N.68<15'E., as laid out by the County Commissioners in 1892 for the relocation of Union Street; said point of beginning being located N.68<15'E., and 180.00 feet distant measured along the said southerly line of Union Street from the northwesterly property corner of land of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Metropolitan District Commission on the southerly side of said way; thence S.21<45'E., 40.00 feet to a point; thence N.68<15'E., 20.00 feet to a point; thence N.21<45'W., 40.00 feet to a point; thence S.68<15'W., 20.00 feet to the point of ending and the beginning point first described in the present southerly line of Union Street - all as shown on the plan hereinbefore mentioned.

Containing according to said plan about eight hundred square feet.