The Portland daily press., 1872-10-15
MISCELLANEOUS.
To the Honorable Charles w. Walton
one of the Justices of the Supreme Jadi-
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yUyHE undersigned, Nathan Webb, Attorney of the
IL United States of America, for the District of
Maine, being thereto authorized by the Honorable
represents that the said United States are desrous Of
purchasing, for the erection Of battery and fort
certain tract oi land situated in the town of Cape
Elizabeth, within the limits of the State of Maine
bounded and described as follows, viz: Beginning at
point on the southerly side IF 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 @ nanared ana thirty feet to stone wall being
thence easterly four hundred feet by said wall to the
sea-shore thence by to land
now 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
That the sole owner of said tract of land is SUD-
posed and believed to be, one Benjamin b. Dyer, a
resident OF said Cape Elizabeth, and capable of con-
veying the same tract to the said United States That
the said Benjamin B. Dyer, owner as aforesaid of
said tract of land, from disagreement in regard to
price or from some other 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 Staes 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 once 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 forward
day to be specified in said notice, and file their
objections, if any they should have to the proposed
purchase
And TINS 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 appropriation and
that such other and further proceedings may be had
in Of the provisions Of act Of the State
Of Maine entitled IAN act for the REIMBURSEMENT to
the United States in certain of titles to lands
or sites Light Stations the coast and waters of
.'the State" Approved February 49, 1871. Amended
by an act entitled ian act to amend chapter six
hundred and forty ynine of the private laws of one
Thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, relating
''to light houses" Approved February 20, 1872 as
may be requisite to convey to said United States
good and absolute title to the aforesaid tract of land
and the right way thereto against all persons what
soever, 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 United States for the District of