The Portland daily press., 1872-07-08
MISCELLANEOUS.
To the Honorable Charles w. Walton
one of the Justices of the Supreme Judi
cial COurf of the Sfafe Of MIME


cial Court of the State of. Maine.
FTNHE undersigned Nathan Webb, Attorney of the
= 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 are esrous Of
purchasing for the erection Of a battery and fort
certain tract Of land situated in the town of Cape
Ellzabeth, within the limits of the State of Maine
bounded and described as follows viz: Beginning at
point on the southerH side Of the road leading to
the Portland Head Light House, eleven hundred feet
from the county road known as the shore road thence
southerly at right angles with said Light House road
seven hundred and thirty feet to q stone wall being
tne southerly boundary of land of BENJAMIN b. Over
thence easterly four hundred feet by said wall to the
se-shore thence by theea-shore to land
now owned by the United States and occupied by the
Portland Head Light House; thence west seven hum
ured and forty feet to the point begun containing
nine acres more 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,
resident of said Cape Elizabeth, and capable of con-
the said Benjamin b. Dyer, owner as aforesaid of
said tract of land from disagreement in regard to
Piee or from some other cause to this applicant and
still does refuse to convey said tract of land and the
rght OF way thereto to said United States wherefore
this applicant respectfully prays your Honor to
order notice of this application to be published in
some newspaper in Portland, nearest to where said
tract OF land lies once in each week for the space of
iour 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
on day to be specified in said notice. and file their
objections, any they should have to the proposed
purchase.
And this applicant further prays that at the time
specified in said notice, a jury may be empannelled
IN the manner now provided by law, to assess the
va Oh said lands at Their air market value, and
appropriated, by reason of such appropriations and
that such other and further proceedings may had
III pursuance of the provisions of of the State
of Maine entitled "an act for the relinaushment to
he United States in certain cases of titles to lands
for sites OF Light Stations the coast and waters of
''tne state. Approved February 49, 1871. Amended
by an act entitled, San act to amend chapter six
hundred and forty mine of the private laws of one
Thousand eight hundred and seventy-one. relating
"to light houses" Approved February 20, 1872 as
may be requisite to convey to said United States q
good and absolute title to the aforesaid tract Of iand
and the right OF way thereto against all persons 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
Maine.
STATE OF MAINE.
CUMBERLAND, S.:
Upon the foregoing application by Nathan Webb
Attorney OF the United States of America, it 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 forth are true and that the said application
tans an accurate description of the lands proposed
to be be purchased, together with the 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 describ
ed, and especially to Benjamin B. Dyer therein
named as supposed owner, requiring them to come
forward in the Supreme Judicial Court in Portland,
in the county of Cumberland, on Thursday, the sew
enteenh day of October, A. d., 1872 at 10 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 a true and at
tested copy of the same application and of this order
thereon, once in each week, for the space of four
months, in the Portland Daily PRESS a news
paper published in Portland, nearest to where the
land lies, the last publication to be on Monday the
fourteenth day of October next.
Dated at Portland, in the county of Cumberland,
the seventeen thday of June, A. D., 1872.
C. W. WALTON,
Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court
true copy of application and order of Justice of
Supreme Judicial Court thereon.
Attest. ID. w. EESSENnEN Clerk