The Portland daily press., 1872-11-27
MISCELLANEOUS.
To the Honorable Charles w. Walton.
one OF the Justices of the Supreme .Eu.
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diciai Court of the state of Maine.
VIE undersigned, Nathan Webb, Attorney OF the
~ United States of America tor the District Of
Name duly authorized agent of said United States
IN TINS purpose respectfully represents that the
United States aforesaid are DESTROYS IF purchasing
1or the erection Of fort and battery certain
OF land situated in the town of Cape Elizabeth in
the County Of Cumberland, within the limits of the
sla!e OF Main particularly bounded and described
az tohows:- Beg1nnlng at copper bolt in a rock on
the southery side of the road leading from the
ty road to the Portland Head Light House, said cop
per bolt being about eleven hundred feet distant
from the county known as shore ro ID thence
southerly at light angles with said Light House
ROAD seven hund ed and nineteen feet more " ss
copper bolt set in the line of stone wall, winch
wall is the southerly boundary OF lana now OF Ior,
mery of Benjamin B. Dyer; thence eastern oy sald
stone wall about four hundred and twenty-esht feet
to the sea shore thence northeasterly by the sea
shore to the point where the southery side line of
the road from county road to the Light House pro-
jonpe world strike the shore at low water line;
thence westerly on such proongaton of the souther-
i side line of the road to the Light House to the first
ham Isl said described parcel of land Containing
about nine That tie sole owner of said de-
scribed tract of land is supposed to be one BENJAMIN
b. Dyer of Cape Elizabeth aforesaid and capable of
| conveying the me to said United States That the
said Benjamin b. Dyer, owner as aforesaid OF said
tract Of land, from disagreement in regard to the
pf1ce OF tue same or from some other to this
applicant and to the said United States unknown
hath refused and still refuses to convey said tract Of
Ian to said United States;
wherefore, this applicant in behalf of said JTn;ted
States respectfully prays your Honor to order notice
OF this application, conformable with the provisions
entitled AN act for REIMBURSEMENT to the United
States in certain Of title to lands for sites of
irht stations on the coast and waters of the State
approved February 49, 1871 amended by an act en-
| titled IAN Act TO amend Chapter six hundred and
forynne Of the private laws of one thousand eight
hun !red and seventy-one, relating 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 forward on
day TO be specified in said notice and file their objec-
flows, if any they should have to the proposed pur-
chase
this applicant, in behalf of said United States
further prays, that the return day specified in
said notice jury may be empannelled in the manner
now provided by law to the val Of said tract
oland at it's fair market value and all damages
tanod by the owner of the lands so appropriated by
reason of such approximation and that such Other
and further proceedings may be had in pursuance CT
the aforesaid acts of the Legislature of the State
Maine 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. D. 1872.
NATHAN WEBB,
Attorney of the United States for the District Of
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