The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-07-23
To the Honorable Charles w. Walton
one of the Justices of the Supreme Judi
cial Court of the State of Maine

VIM OOuEs VI inc Stubc Oh NAalme.
TTyHE undersigned, Nathan Webb Attorney of tho
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 DESTROYS Of
purchasing, for the erection Of battery and fort
certain tract Of land situated in the town of Cape
bounded and described follows, viz: Beginning at
point on the southery side If the road leading to
the Portland Head Light House, eleven hundred feet
from the county road known the shore road thence
southery at right angles with said Light House road
seven hundred and thirty feet to a stone wall being
the southerly boundary Of land of Benjamin B. Dyer
thence easterly four hundred feet by said wall to the
seashore thence nOrtheastery to land
now owned by the United States and occupied by the
bred and forty feet to the point begun at containing
nine acres more or less together with the right Of
way thereto.
That the sole 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 con-
veyng the same tract to the said United States That
the said BENJAMIN b. Dyer, owner aforesaid Of
said tract of land, from disagreement in regard to
price from some other to 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 States wherefore
this applicant respectfully prays your Honor to
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 an 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 come forward
W specimen Ill Sa1d n0tlc6, and Tile their
objections, any they should have to the proposed
purchase
And this applicant further pIays 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 80
appropriated, by reason of such appropriation and
that such other and further proceedings may be had
in of the provisions Of of the State
OF Maine entitled ian act for the REIMBURSEMENT to
1.-THE United States in certain Of titles to lands
or sites Of Light Stations the coast and waters Of
1.-THE State" Approved February IS, 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 and seventy-one, relating
10 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 what
soever, and as in duty bound will ever pray.
Dated at Portland in the county Of Cumberland
and State OF Maine, this fifteenth day Of june A. D.,
NATHAN WEBB,
Attorney Of the United States for the District Of