The Portland daily press., 1872-09-23
To the HOnorab BILE Charles w. Walton .one
of the Justices Of she Supreme Judicial
Court a 4 the State of Maine

! To the Honorable Charles w. Walton. one
ofthe Justices OF ti,e Supreme Judicial
Court of the State of Maine.
TEyHE undersigned Nathan Webb, Attorffey Of the
Il United States of America, for the District of
Maine being thereto duly authorized by the Honora-
respectfully represents that the said United
States DESTROYS of purchasing for the erection of
fort and battery certain tract Of land situated in
the town of Cape Elizabeth, within the limits of the
State of Maine, bounded and described az follows
beginning at the shore the division line be-
the sy sSs
America, of Asa 7. Webster, thence by said divsion
line West fftytwo rods and five links thence North
twenty-eight and half degrees West ten rods, hese
lines being the last two written in said George c.
Thompson 8 deed, as recorded in Cumberland Regis
try Of Deeds Boaok 2e Page 4S thence North
thence North sxty-eight degrees East, three hun
dred and thirty feet to low water line in Ship Cove,
the point where the Northerly boundary of said
Thompsons line intersects the high water line;
thence by the sea shore eastery and southey to the
point begun at containing thirteen 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-
dent of said Cape Elizabeth, and capable of convey
ing the same tract to the said United States.
Itlat the SAID George q Thompson owner as afore-
gard t price or from some other to this appl
can't and to the said United States unknown, hath
refused and still docs refuse to convey said tract of
land and the righr of way thereto to said United
States .- r..
wherefore TINS 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 con-
tain 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 day to be specified in said notice,
and file their objections any they shall have to the
proposed purchase.
And this applicant further prays, that at the time
specified in said notice, a jury may be empanneed
in the manner now provided by law, to assess the
value of said lands their fair value market value,
and all damages sustained by the of the lands
so appropriated by reason of such appropriation and
that such other and further proceedings may be had
in pursuance ofthe provisions of an act of the State
of Maine entitled can act for the REIMBURSEMENT to
the United States in CERTAIN cases. of title to lands for
sites of light stations the coast aud waters of the
State, approved February is, 1871, amended by an
act, entitled AN Act to amend Chapter six hundred
and forty mine of the private laws of thousand
eight hundred 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 of way
thereto, against all persons whatsoever, and so will
ever pray.
Dated atPcrtland, 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
Maine.