The Portland daily press., 1872-11-21
MISCELLANEOUS.
TO the Honorable Charles w. Walton,
one of the justices of the Supreme Ju.
.I.ciaI Court 0f the Stufe of Maine.

the HI OmOf1ble Gn6fkcA W. w ailOHs
one of the Justices Of the supreme Ju-
dicial Court of the State of Maine.
TEyHF undersigned, han Webb, Attorney of the
4 United States of America for the District Of
Maine duly authorized agent of said United States
for this purpose, respectfully represents that the
United States aforesaid are DESTROYS Of purchasing
for the erection of fort and battery certain tract
of land situated in the town of Cape Elizabeth, in
the County of Cumberland, within the limits of the
State of Maine particularly bounded and described
folows:- Beginning at copper bolt in a rock on
the s)utherly side of the road leading from the coun
ty road to the Portland Head Light House said cop
per bolt being about eleven hundred feet distant
from the county road known the shore road thence
southerly at light angles with said Light House
road seven hd ed and nineteen feet more or less ID
copper bolt set in the line of stone wall when f0n
wall Is the Southerly boundary OF lana now OF ior
merry of Benjamin b. Dyer; thence easteriJ ny salu
stone wJll about four hundred and feet
to the sea shore; thence northeasteriy by the sea
shore to the pont where the southerly side line of
the road from county road to the Light House pro-
longed would strike tne sea SHORE az low %ater ne
y sIe line of the road to the Light House to the first
bombs; said described parcel of land containing
about Zinc acres. That the sole owner of said de-
scrbed tract Of land is supposed to be one BENJAMIN
b. Dyer, of Cape Elizabeth aforesaid, and capable of
conveying the same to said United States. That the
said Benjamin b. Dyer, owner aforesaid of said
tract of land, from disagreement in regard to the
price of the same or from some other cause to this
hath refused and still refuses to convey said tract of
land to said United States;
Wherefore this applicant, in behalf OF said United
of this application, conformable with the provisions
OF the Act of the Legislature of the State of Maine
entitled "An act for the REIMBURSEMENT to the United
States in certain of title to lands for sites of
light stations on the coast and waters of the State
approved Feb uary Is, 1871 amended by an act en-
titled An Act to amend Chapter six hundred and
fortynine Of the private laws of one thousand eight
hun red and seventy relating to light houses -
approved February 20, 1872 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 de-
scription of 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 objec-
tons, if any they should have, to the proposed pur-
chase.
And this applicant, in behalf of said United States,
further prays, that the return day specified in
said notice jury may be empanneled in the manner
provided by law to the val of said tract
ofland at its fair market value, and all damages sus-
tanned by the of the lands appropriated by
reason Of such appro ration, and that such other
and further proceedings may be had in pursuance
the aforesaid acts of the Legislature of the State
Maine may be requisite to convey to said United
States of America good and absolute title TO the
above described tract OF land against all persons
Whatsoever; and so will ever pray.
Dated at Portland, in the County of Cumberland,
the twenty-ninth day of October. A d. 1872.
NATHAN WEBB,
Attorney of the United States for the District Of
Maine