The Portland daily press., 1872-07-30
MISCELLANEOUS.
To the Honorable Charles w. Walton
one of the Justices of the Supreme Judi.
ciaI Court of the State Of N.;uo

ciaI Court OF the state of Maine.
TTNHE 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
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
Ellza6eth within the limits of the State Of Maine,
bounded and described as follows, viz Beginning at
point the southerly side Of the road leading to
the Portland Head Light House, eleven hundred feet
from the county road known the shore road thence
seven hundred and thirty feet to wall, being
the southerly boundary of land of Benjamin b. Dyer
thence easterly four hundred feet by said wall to the
seashore thence norheasteriy to land
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 acres more or less together with the right OF
way thereto. '.L W -
That the sole owner 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-
veying the tract to the said United That
the said Benjamin b. Dyer, owner as aforesaid Of
said tract of land, from disagreement in regard to
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
some newspaper in Portland nearest to where said
tract ofland lies once 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 to come forward
objections, if any they should have to the proposed
| purchase. i',5 ~: F!f TT 10
And this applicant further piays that at the time
specihed 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
appropriated, by reason Of such appropriation; and
that such other and further proceedings may be had
in pursuance of the provisions of of the State
Of Maine entitled ian act for the REIMBURSEMENT
"the United Statesn certain of titles to lands
for sites Of Light Stations on the coast and waters
''the State" Approved February 49, 1871. Amended
4 by an act entitled, San act to amend chapter sii
hundred and forty mine Of the private laws of one
Thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, relating
"to light houses" Approved February 20, 1872, al
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 sgainsta persons what
| soever, and as in duty bound will ever pray n
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 o