The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-09-24
To the Honorable Charles w. Walton .one
ofthe Justices of the Supreme Judicial
Court of the State of M nine


To the Honorable Charles w. Walton .one
ofthe Justices of the Supreme Judicial
Court of the State of Maine.
VNHE undersigned, Nathan Webb, Attorney Of the
T. United States of America, for the District Of
Maine being thereto duly authorized by the Honora-
BILE Attorney General of said United States,
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 follows:-
tween the land belonging to George c. Thompson,
and the land recently bought by the United States OF
line West ffty-two rods and five links thence North
twenty-eight and half degrees West ten rods these
lines being the last two written in said George C.
Thompsons deed, as recorded in Cumberland Regis
try OF Deeds Book PIG, page 465); thence North
eleven degrees East five hundred and thirty feet
thence North sixty-eght 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
thence by the shore easery and southery to the
point begun at containing thirteen acres more or 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.
That the said George c. Thompson owner as afore-
said of said tract of land from disagreement in re-
gard e price or from some other cause to this appli
cant and to the said United States unknown hath
refused and still does refuse to convey said tract of
land and the righr of way thereto to said United
otdlco.
Wherefore this applicant respectfully prays
your Honor to order notice of this application to be
puDlshed IN some newspaper in Portland, nearest
to where said tract of land ss 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
snail require all persons interested in said lands to
come forward OF day to be specified in said notice.
and file their objections if any they shall have the
And this applicant further prays that at the time
specifed in said notice. a jury may be empannellcd
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 of the lands
so appropriated by of such appropriation and
that such other and further proceedings may be had
in pursuance oftbe provisions of an act of the State
of Maine entitled An act for the REIMBURSEMENT tn
te oned states IN certain cases. of title to lands for
sites OF light stations on the and waters of the
State, approved February IS, 1871, amended by an
act, entitled IAN Act to amend Chapter six hundred
ana iorty-n OF the private laws of thousand
eight hundred seventy-one relating to light houses"
approved February 20, 1872, as may be reouiste 10
convey to said United States good and absolute title
thereto against all persons whatsoever, and SO wifi
ever pray.
Dated at Portland, in the County of Cumberland
1872. NATHAN WERE ~ D''
Attorney of the United States for the District of
Maine. ~
STATE OF MAINE.
CUMBERLAND, SIS.
Upon the foregoing application by Nathan Webb
Attorney OF the United States OF America il having
been made to appear to me- that the said applicant is
duly authorized agent of said United States to make
the same and that the matters of fact therein set
Iorth are true and that the said application contains
an accurate description of the lands proposed to be
purchased together with the name Of all known or
supposed owners of said lands, it is
ordered, That notice Of said application be given
to all persons interested in the lands therein descrb-
ed, and especially to George c. Thomson
therein named, as supposed owner requiring them to
come forward in the Supreme Judicial Court, in
Portland in the county of Cumberland on Friday the
eighteenth day Of October IA D. 1872 at ten o'clock in
the forenoon and file their objections if any they shall
have to the proposed purchase by said United States
OF said lands, by publication of true and attested
copy ofthe same application and of this order there
on once in each week. for the space of four months
IN the Portland Daily PRESS, newspaper published
IN rortland nearest to where the land lies the last
October next. ' ="
=, DATED at Portland in the County of Cumberland,
tne seventeenth day of June, A. D., 1872.
G. w. WALTON
Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court.
u true COPY OF application and order of Justice of
Supreme Judicial Court thereon. '''' u
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