The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-07-15
To the Honorable Charles w. Walton .one
offhe Justices Of the Supreme judicial
Court of the State Of Maine.

VI inc SustAccS Oh the supreme Judicial
Court of the State of Maine.
TEVHE undersigned, Nathan Webb ATTORNEY of the
Il United States of America, for the District of
Maine being thereto duly authorized by the Honora-
bic Attorney General of said United States
States are DESTROYS of purchasing for the erection of
Tort 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 foows:-
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 I. Webster thence by said division
line West fftytwo rods and five links thence N0rtl,
twenty eight and half degrees West ten rods these
lines being the last two written in said George C.
Thompsons Decd as recorded in Cumberland Regis
try OF Deeds, Book 216, page 1863; thence North
eleven degrees East five hundred and thirty feet
thence North sixty-eight degrees, East. three Inn
dred and thirty feet to low water line in Ship Cove
TINS course being one hundred feet Southwark from
the point where the Northerly boundary of said
IhOmpsons line intersects the high water line;
thence by the shore eastery 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 c. 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-
can't and to the said United States unknown, hath
refused and still does refuse convey said tract of
land and the righr 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 four months, which notice shall con-
tam 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 to
come forward on day to be specified in said notice
proposed purchase.
And this applicant further prays that at the time
specified in said notice, jury may be empanneled
IN the manner now provided by law, to assess the
value of said lands their fair value market yalue
and all damages sustained by the owner of the lands
SO appropriated by reason of such appropriations and
that such other and further proceedings may be had
In pursuance ofthe provisions of act of tile State
OF Maine entitled AN act for the REIMBURSEMENT to
the United States in certain cases. title to lands for
sites OF light stations the and waters of the
State, approved February Is, 1871 amended by am
act, entitled IAN Act to amend Chapter six hundred
and of the private laws of one thousand
eight hundred seventy one, relating to light houses
approved February 90 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 viii
ever pray.
Dated at Portland in the County of Cumberland
and State of Maine, this fifteenth day of june A. D.
1872 NATHAN WERR " '
Attorney of the United States for the District of
Maine