The Portland daily press., 1872-09-16

To the Honorable Charles w. Walton
one of the Justices of the Supreme Judi
ciaI Court OF the State of Maine.

commissioners.
Deering, September, 5th 1872. sep6-d3w
To the Honorable Charles w. Walton
one of the j astices of the Supreme Judi
ciaI Court ofthe State of Maine.
YENHE 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 desrous of
purchasing for the erection of battery aud fort,
certain tract of land situated in the town of Cape
Elizabeth within the limits of the State of MaiDe
bounded and described as follows, viz: Beginning az
point the southerly side Of the road ieadiug to
the Portland Head Light House, eleven hundred leet
from the county road known the shore road thence
southerly at right angles with said Light House road
seven hundred and thirty feet tc wall. being
the southery boundary of land of BENJAMIN B. DYER
thence eastery four hundred feet by said wall to the
seashore thence n0rtbeastery by theseas to lard
owned by the Uni ed States and occupied by the
Portland Head Light House; thence west seven hun
dred and forty feet to the point begun a. containing
nine acres more or less, together with the right of
way thereto.
That the sole owner of said tract of land is sup
posed and believed to be, one Benjamin b. Dyer, a
resident of said Cape Elizabeth and capable of
veying the tract to the said United States That
the said Benjamin Is. Dyer, owner as aforesaid of
said tract of land from disagreement in regard to
price from some other 20 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 i'm
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
en- day to be specified in said notice. and file their
objections, fany 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 appropriation; and
THAI such other and further proceedings may be had
in pursuance of the provisions of an act of the State
OF Maine entitled IAN act for the REIMBURSEMENT to
1.-THE United States in certain cases of titles to lands
for sites of Light Stations the coast and waters of
1.-THE state" Approved February Is, 1871. Amended
by an act entitled, "an act to amend chapter six
hundred and forty -nine of the private laws of one
Thousand eight hundred and seyenty-one, relating
may be requisite to convey to said United States,
good and absolute title to the aforesaid tract of an
ami the right way thereto against all persons what
soeyer and as in duty bound will ever pray.
Dated at Portland in the county of Cumberland
AMI State of Maine, this fifteenth day of june A D.,
1872. -
NATHAN WEBB,
Attorney of the United States for the District ef