The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-06-18
To the Honorable Charles w. Walton .one
ofthc Justices of the Supreme JudiciaI

WHIT Oh tnt 3iHle OIL NHA nine.
TV1HE undersigned Nathan Webb, Attorney OF the
Il United States of America, for the District Of
Maine, being thereto duly authorized by the Honora
bic Attorney General Of said United States,
States are DESTROYS OF purchasing for the erection Of
fort and battery certain tract of land, situated in
the town OF cape Eizaheth within the limits of the
State OF Maine bounded and described as follows:-
Beginning at the sea shore the division line be-
tween S M The land belonging 70 George g Ieompson
America, OF Asa L. Webster, thence by said division
line West ffty-two rods and five links thence North
twcnty-eieht and half degrees West ten rods THESE
lines being the last two written in said George G,
Thompson's deed, as recorded in Cumberland Regis
try Of Deeds, Book PIG, page 465); thence North
thence North sixty-eight degrees, East three hun
bred and thirty feet to low water line in Ship Cove
this course being one hundred feet Southwark from
the point where the Northerly boundary OF said
Thompson's line intersects the high water line;
thence by the sea shore easery and southery to the
point begun containing thirteen acres more or less
together With right of way thereto.
That the owner Of said tract of land is supposed
and believed to be one George G. Thompson, resi-
ing the same tract to the said United States
That the said George 9. Thompson, owner as afore-
said OF said tract OF land from disagreement in re-
gard to price from other cause to this app-
cant and to the said United States unknown hath
refused and still does refuse TO convey said tract Of
Land and the righr of way thereto to said United
States r. 'tAasatl " ~ y
Wherefore this applicant respectfully prays
your Honor to order notice OF this application to be
published in some newspaper in Portland, nearest
10 where said hes, once in each week for
the space of four months, which notice shall con-
tain an accurate description Of the said tract land
together with the name of the supposed owner and
shall require all persons interested in said lands to
come forward on day to be specified in said notice.
and Tile their objections If any they shall have TO the
proposed purchase.
And this applicant further prays that at the time
specifed in said notice, q jury may be empannelled
in the manner now provided by law, to assess the
value OF said lands at their fair value market value
and all damages sustained by the of the lands
so appropriated by reason of such appropriations and
that such other and further proceedings may be had
in pursuance ofthe provisions of act of the State
Of Maine entitled An act for the REIMBURSEMENT to
me United States in certain cases. of title to lands for
sites OF light stations the and waters of the
state, approved February Is, 1871, amended by an
act, entitled IAN Act to amend Chapter six hundred
ana forty of the pnvate laws Of one thousand
eight hundred seventy-one relating TO light houses
approved February 20 1872, may be requisite to
convey to said United States good and absolute title
to the aforesaid tract of land and the right of way
thereto, against all persons whatsoever, and so will
ever pray. w ~ ="
Dated at Portland, in the County of Cumberland
and State of Name this fifteenth day of June A. D.
1872. NATHAN WERT
Attorney of the United States, for the District of