§ 45-52-1. Creation — Corporate powers.
(a) All that part of the town of Charlestown County of Washington and state of Rhode Island,
commencing at a point being the northeast corner thereof on the westerly line of West
Beach road, being the northeasterly corner of lot 84 as shown on plat entitled "Quonochontaug
Highlands, Property of Charlestown Estates, Inc., Charlestown, R.I. Scale 1� = 50
ft. August 1940, Rossi & Lewis, Engineers"; then in a general westerly direction to
the shore line of Quonochontaug Pond, along the northerly boundary of lots shown and
delineated on the plat; then southerly along the easterly shore line of Quonochontaug
Pond to a stone wall at land formerly of the Heirs of George S. Baxter as shown on
the plat; then southeasterly along the stone wall as shown on the plat to the northerly
line of a highway as shown on the plat; then easterly along the northerly line of
the highway to the westerly line of the West Beach Road; and then northerly along
the westerly line of West Beach Road to the point of beginning.
(b) And also all that part of the town of Charlestown beginning at a point on the shore
of the Atlantic Ocean in the town of Charlestown, where the land formerly of Howard
E. Thorp & Nelson H. Thorp and land formerly of Donald J. Bunce meet, the point also
being the southeasterly corner of the jurisdictional bounds of Quonochontaug Central
Beach Fire District; then running in a general northerly direction bounded westerly
by the easterly boundary of Quonochontaug Central Beach Fire District to the northerly
line of Sea Breeze Ave.; then westerly along the northerly line of Sea Breeze Avenue
to land of Quonochontaug Central Beach Fire District; then in a general northerly
direction bounded westerly by land of Quonochontaug Central Beach Fire District to
the southerly point of land formerly of the Heirs of Mary E. Briggs; then continuing
northwesterly bounded southwesterly by the land of the Heirs of Mary E. Briggs a distance
of three hundred feet (300′), more or less, to an angle at other land formerly of
Mary E. Briggs; then turning and running a distance of eight hundred twenty feet (820′),
more or less, in a general northeasterly direction bounded northwesterly by land formerly
of the Heirs of Mary E. Briggs as shown on a plat entitled "Plat of Land at Quonochontaug,
R.I. consisting of Charlestown Estates, Inc., Central Beach Quonochontaug Highlands,
Scale 1� = 200 ft. January 1st, 1940, H.E. Thorp & Son, Agents Dixon Square Bldg.,
Westerly, R.I."; then turning and running in a general northerly direction four hundred
eleven feet (411′), more or less, bounded westerly by the Briggs land to land now
or formerly of Asa Hoxsie as shown on the plat dated January 1st, 1940 to a point;
then turning and running in a general easterly direction one thousand two hundred
fifty feet (1250′), more or less, to a wall intersection at the northwesterly corner
of land of Hazard H. Burdick as shown on the plat dated January 1st, 1940, the wall
intersection being three hundred twenty-seven feet (327′), more or less, from the
westerly line of East Beach Road as measured along an extension easterly of the last
described course; then turning and running in a general northerly direction to the
southwesterly corner of land now or formerly of Lloyd E. Cook, et ux, and the northwesterly
corner of land now or formerly of Lillian H. Richardson; then turning and running
in a general easterly direction bounded northerly by the Cook land to the westerly
line of the East Beach Road; then easterly crossing East Beach Road to the east side
thereof; then northerly along the east side of East Beach Road to the southerly line
of land of Sun Rise Acres Condominium; then easterly one hundred seventy feet (170′),
more or less, bounded northerly by the Sun Rise Acres Condominium land; then turning
and running southerly bounded easterly in part by land of Sun Rise Acres Condominium,
and in part by lot numbered 54 as shown and delineated on plat entitled, �Sun Rise
Acres, property of Charlestown Estates, Inc., Quonochontaug, Charlestown, R.I., Scale
1" = 80 ft. November, 1948, Rossi & Lewis Engineers�, which plat is on file in the
town clerk's office of the town of Charlestown, to the northerly line of Peabody Road;
then westerly along the northerly line of Peabody Road to the easterly line of East
Beach Road; then southerly along the easterly line of East Beach Road to the southerly
line of Peabody Road; then easterly on the southerly line of Peabody Road to the northeasterly
corner of lot no. 46 as shown on the Sun Rise Acres plat dated 1948; then turning
and running southerly bounded easterly by lot 44 as shown and delineated on the Sun
Rise Acres plat dated 1948 to the southwesterly corner of lot 44 as shown on the plat
dated 1948; then turning and running in a general easterly direction to the southeast
corner of lot 42 as shown on the plat dated 1948 and then southerly to the northerly
line of a street known as Moulton Place bounded easterly by lots shown and delineated
on the plat dated 1948; then turning and running westerly along the northerly line
of Moulton Place to the easterly line of East Beach Road; then southerly bounded westerly
by East Beach Road to the southerly line of Moulton Place; then turning and running
easterly along the southerly line of Moulton Place to the west shore line of Ninigret
Pond; then southerly along the west shore line of Ninigret Pond to the northerly line
of South Street, so-called; then westerly along the northerly line of South Street
to the easterly line of East Beach Road; then southerly along the easterly line of
East Beach Road to an intersection with an extension easterly of the northerly line
of land now or formerly of Margaret I. Ferretti; then westerly across the extension
and bounded southerly by the Ferretti land to the northwesterly corner thereof; then
southerly, bounded easterly by the Ferretti land, to the shore line of the Atlantic
Ocean; then westerly along the shore line of the Atlantic Ocean to the point and place
of beginning are incorporated into a district to be called the Quonochontaug East
Beach water district.