The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-10-08
MISCELLANEOUS.
To the Honorable Charles w. Walton
one of the Justices of the Supreme Judi
ciaI COurf of the State of Maine

cfat COurt Oh the SIate OIL NhalRe.
FINHE undersigned, Nathan Webb Attorney of the
Il United States of America, for the District Of
Maine, being thereto authorized, by the Honorable
Attorney General of said United States respectfully
represents that the said United States DESTROYS Of
purchasing, for the erection of battery and fort
certain tract of land situated in the town of Cane
Ehza6eth, within the limits of the State of Maine
bounded and described follows viz: Beginning at
point on the southery side Of the road leading to
the Portland Head Light House, eleven hundred feet
from the county road known as the shore road thence
southerly at right angles with said Light House road
seven hundred and thirty feet to a stone wall being
the southerly boundary Of land of Benjamin b. Dyer
thence easterly four hundred feet by said wall the
sea-shore thence norheastery by heea-shore land
owned by the United States and occupied by the
Portland Head Light House; thence west seven hun
dred and forty feet to the point begun at containing
nine acres more or less together with the right OF
way thereto. -Fr
That the sole owner of said tract of land is SUD-
posed and believed to be, one Benjamin b. DYER
resident Of said Cape Elizabeth and capable Of con-
yeyng the same tract to the said United States That
the said Benjamin Il. Dyer, owner as aforesaid of
said tract of land, from disagreement in regard to
price from some other cause to this applicant and
to the said United States unknown, hath refused and
still does refuse to convey said tract of land and the
right of way thereto to said United States wherefore
this applicant respectfully prays your Honor to
order notice Of this application to be published in
some newspaper in Portland nearest to where said
tract OF land lies in each week for the space of
four months which notice shall contain accurate
description Of the said tract of 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 speclned IN SAID notice, and lille their
objections If any they should have to the proposed
purchase.
And this applicant further plays that at the time
specified In said notice, jury may be empannelled
in the manner now provided by law, to assess the
value of said lands at their fair market value, and
all damages sustained by the owner of the lands so
appropriated by reason of such approximation; and
that such other and further proceedings may be had
in pursuance OF the provisions of act of the State
the United States in certain cases of titles to lands
for sites ofLght Stations the coast and waters of
1.-THE State" Approved February IS, 1871. Amended
by an act entitled, ian act to amend chapter six
hundred and forty-nine of the private laws of one
Thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, relating
Ito light houses" Approved February 20, 1872, as
good and absolute title to the aforesaid tract of an
and the right of way thereto against all persons what
soeyer, and as in duty bound will ever pray
Dated at Portland, in the county Of Cumberland
and State of Maine this fifteenth day of june A. D.,
1872.
NATHAN WEBB,
Attorney of the TTnitad Statac for tha