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APPENDIX.

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APPENDIX.

CHAPTER I.

AREA, STREETS, &c., OF FALL RIVER.

Area of Town of Fall River, and of City, since the adjustment of the Rhode Island Boundary.

The area of the town, as set off from the town of Freetown, was about twenty-three and four-tenths square miles or fourteen thousand, nine hundred and eighty-four acres.

The present area of the city is eighteen thousand, five hundred and seventy-one acres or about twenty-nine square miles.

We learn from Philip D. Borden, Jr., city engineer, that the number of miles of streets and roads accepted by the city is ninety-sixty and fourteen one-hundredths, and the length of common sewers and drains, constructed by the city, is about twenty and one-tenth miles.

Taunton river and Mount Hope bay, forming the western boundary of the city for about eight miles, afford a natural and ample outlet for the sewerage of the city.

Quequechan river from South Watuppa pond runs through the heart of the city-a distance of three miles-and empties into Taunton Great river, at its junction with Mount Hope bay, forming a natural outlet for the surface flowage of a great portion of the city.

CHAPTER II.

BOUNDARIES.

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.

In the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and three.

AN ACT to divide the town of Freetown, and to incorporate the southerly part thereof, into a separate town by the name of Fall River, with its boundaries, &c., &c.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, that the southerly part of Freetown, in the county of Bristol, as described within the following bounds, with the inhabitants thereon, be, and they are hereby incorporated into a separate town, by the name of Fall River, viz: Beginning in Taunton Great River, so called, and thence running south, twenty degrees east, on the line dividing the lands belonging to the heirs of Samuel Valentine, from the lands of the heirs of William Valentine; and so continuing the same course about eight hundred and sixty rods, till it intersects a line, running from the town of Dartmouth, north twelve degrees east, by the easterly of the twentieth great lot, owned by Thomas Borden and Richard Borden; thence on the line last mentioned, to Dartmouth line; thence by the lines of the towns of Dartmouth and Westport, to the state line of Rhode Island; thence on the line of said state into said. river; thence by the channel of said river, to the bounds first mentioned.

And the said town of Fall River, is hereby, vested with all the powers, privileges, rights and immunities to which other towns are entitled, by the Constitution and laws of this Commonwealth. Enacted Feb. 24th, 1803, and approved by Governor, same date.

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