The Portland daily press., 1872-12-18
MISCELIA NEOUS.
To the Honorable Charles w. Walton,
one of the Jusfic OF the Supreme Ju-
dicial Court of the state of tassiue.


fElHE undersigned, Nathan Webb, Attorney OF the
Il United States Of America tor the District Of
Maine, duly authorized agent of said United States
fr this purpose, respectfully represents that the
United States aforesaid DESTROYS IF purchasing
for the erection of f,rt and battery certain tract
OF land situated in the town Of Cape Elizabeth, in
the County of Cumberland, within the limits of the
State OF Main, particularly bounded and described
as foilows:- Beginning at a copper bolt in a rock
the southery side of the road lealing from the
ty road to the Portland Head Light House. said cop
per bolt being about eleven hundred feet distant
from the county road known as the shore ro d, thence
southerly at light angles with said Light House
road seven hund ed and nineteen feet or less
q copper bolt set in the line of stone wall, which
wall is the southerly boundary of land now or for
merly of Benjamin b. Dyer; thence easteri, by said
stone wall about four hundred and twenty feet
to the sea shore; thence northeasterly by tho
snore to the point where the s0utherly side line of
the road from county road to the Light House pro-
onged would strike the sea shore low water line;
~ se line OF the road to the Light House to the first
bounds; said described parcel of lanl containing
about nine acres That the sole owner of said de-
scrubbed tract If land is supposed be one Benjamin
u. Dyer of Cape Elizabeth aforesaid and capable of
conveying the same TO said United States. That the
said Benjamin B. Dyer, owner as aforesaid OF said
tract OF land, from disagreement in regard to the
price of the same or from some other cause to this
applicant and to the said United States unknown,
land TO said Uni ei States;
wherefore, this applicant, in behalf OF said United
of this application conrable With tbo nrnysnns
Of the Act of the Legislature of the State of Maine
entitled IAN act for observation-disclosures to the United
States in certain of tile to lands for sites of
light stations OH the coast and waters of the State
approved February Is, 1871 amended by an act en-
titled IAN Act TO amend Chapter six hundred and
f1rtynin of the private laws Of one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-one relating to light houses
approved February 90 1872, to be published in 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 de-
scription of 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 and file their obec-
fiona if any they should have, to the proposed pur-
chase.
And this applicant, in behalf of said United States
further prays, that on the return day specified in
said notice jury may be empannelled in the manner
now provide by law to the val of said tract
ofland at its fair market value and all damages sus-
tanned by the owner of the lands appropriated by
reason Of such approl ration and that such other
and further proceedings may be had in pursuance of
the aforesaid acts of the Legislature of the State of
Maine. as may be requisite to convey to said United
States Of America good and absolute title TO the
above described tract OF land against all pei sons
whatsoever; and so will ever pray.
Dated at Portland in the County of Cumberland
the twenty -ninth day of October. A. ID. 1872.
NATHAN WEBB,
Attorney of the United States for the District of
Maine.