The Portland daily press., 1872-08-19
MISCELLANEOUS.
To the Honorable Charles w. Walton
ono of the Justiccs of the Supreme Judi
csoI (aurt of the State of Maine

ono of the Justices OF the supreme Judi-
cinI Court of the State of Maine
yUyHE 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 are esrous Of
purchasing, Tor the erection of battery and fort,
certain tract of land situated in the town of Cape
Elizabeth, within the limits of the State of Maine
bounded and described as follows, viz: Beginning at
point on the southery side Of the road leading to
the Portland Head Light House, eleven hundred feet
from the county road known the shore road thence
southerly at right angles with said Light House road
seven hundred and thirty feet to stone wall being
the soutberly boundary of land of Benjamin b. Dyer
thence eastery four hundred feet by said wall to he
sea-shore thence northeastery by to
now owned by the United States and occupied by the
Portland Head Light House, thence west seven hun
dred and forty feet to the point begun at containing
nine more or less, together with the right OF
way thereto.
posed and believed to be, one Benjamin b. Dyer, a
resident of said Cape Elizabeth, and capable of con-
veying the same tract to the said United States That
| the said Benjamin b. Dyer, owner as aforesaid of
said tract of land, from disagreement in regard
price from other cause 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
order notice Of this application to be published in
some newspaper in Portland, nearest to where said
tract of land les 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 como forward
day to be specified in said notice. and file their
objections, if any they should have to the proposed
purchase.
And this applicant further pays 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
that such other and further proceedings may be had
IN pursuance OF the provisions of act of the State
of Maine entitled "an act for the REIMBURSEMENT to
| N of IN land
for sites ofLight Stations the and waters
1.-THE State" Approved February IS, 1871: Amended
by an act entitled, ian 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,
good and absolute title to the aforesaid tract Of land
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 ID.
| 1872.
NATHAN WEBB,
Attorney Of the United States for the District o.
| Maine.