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 division of capital planning and operations, acting for and on behalf of the commonwealth, is hereby authorized to grant to Roy C. Root and Ellen C. Root, husband and wife as tenants by the entirety, by a deed, approved as to form by the attorney general, any or all the right, title and interest of the commonwealth in two certain tracts of land in the town of Northborough, bounded and described as follows:

Tract one: A certain tract of land containing 0.61 acres more or less, situated off the southeasterly side of Hudson Street in the Town of Northborough, County of Worcester, Massachusetts, being more particularly bounded and described as follows:

Beginning at the southeasterly corner of the parcel herein described and at other land of the grantor;

THENCE RUNNING N.34< 26'10"W.241.27 feet to a point;

THENCE RUNNING N.37< 07'20"E.115.00 feet to a point;

THENCE RUNNING S.52< 52'40"E.155.13 feet to a point;

All courses being by other land of Root;

THENCE RUNNING S.16< 02'20"W.205.05 feet by other land of the Commonwealth to the point of beginning.

Tract two: A certain tract of land containing 1.03 acres more or less, situated off the southeasterly side of Hudson Street, in the Town of Northborough, County of Worcester, Massachusetts, being more particularly bounded and described as follows:

Beginning at the most northeasterly corner of the parcel herein described at other land of the grantor and land of Sherman C. and Marilyn E. Sebastian; N/F;

THENCE RUNNING S. 35< 21' 35" W. 507.72 feet to a point;

THENCE RUNNING S. 22< 06' 50" W. 270.16 feet to a point;

The last two courses being by other land of the Commonwealth;

THENCE RUNNING N. 08< 40' 00" W. 102.28 feet to a point;

THENCE RUNNING N. 08< 38' 30" E. 149.02 feet to a point;

THENCE RUNNING N. 33< 19' 25" E. 226.82 feet to a point;

THENCE RUNNING N. 49< 22' 45" E. 347.72 feet to the point of beginning;

All courses by other land of Root.

The above described tracts are a portion of the land taken in easement in an order of taking dated May twelfth, nineteen hundred and seventy-five and recorded June twelfth, nineteen hundred and seventy-five at the Worcester district registry of deeds in Worcester county in book 5733, pages 157 and 163 and are identified as tracts 126 and 128, respectively, on a plan entitled, "Commonwealth of Massachusetts Water Resources Commission Plan of Land in the Town of Northborough (Worcester County) and City of Marlborough (Middlesex County)", which is recorded in the Worcester district registry of deeds in plan book 412, page 56.

Said tracts of land were taken by the water resources commission by virtue of the authority and in the exercise of the powers conferred by chapter six hundred and sixty-nine of the acts of nineteen hundred and sixty as amended for the purpose of flood prevention and related purposes.