The Portland daily press., 1872-08-19
To the Honorable Charles w. Walton. onc
ofthc Justices of the Supreme judicial
Court of the State Of M aine

VI thC a. Ol tnc supreme JUDICIAL
Court of the State of Maine.
VNHE undersigned, Nathan Webb Attorney of the
Il United States of America, for the District of
Maine being thereto duly authorized by the Honoraf
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 Elizabeth, within the limits Of the
State of Maine, bounded and described as follows
Beginning at the sea shore the division line be-
tween the land belonging to George c. Thompson,
and the land recently bought by the United States of
America of Asa L. Webster, thence by said division
line West fty-two rods and five links thence North
lines being the last two written in said George c.
Thompson's deed, as recorded in Cumberland Regis
try Of Deeds, Book PIG, page 460; thence North
thence North sixtyeight degrees, East, three hun
dred 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 eastery 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
dent of said Cape Elizabeth and capable of convey
ing the same tract to the said United States
That the said George c. Thompson, owner as afore-
said of said tract of land from disagreement in re-
gard Z price or from other cause to this app-
cant aid to the said United States unknown hath
reused ana SUN does refuse to convey said tract Of
States.
Wherefore this applicant respectfully prays
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 on day to be specified in said notice
and file their objections if any they shall have to the
proposed purchase.
And this applicant further prays, that at the time
specified in said notice, q jury may be empanneled
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 owner 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 tile State
of Maine entitled An act for the REIMBURSEMENT to
the United States in certain cases. of title to lands for
sites of light stations the and waters of the
State, approved February 49, 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 seventy 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 at Portland, in the County of Cumberland
and State of Maine, this fifteenth day of june A. D.,
1879. NATHAN WERR
Attorney of the United States, for the District of
Maine. IT -