The Portland daily press., 1872-07-09
To the Honorable Charles w. Walton .One
ofthe Justices of the Supreme Judicial
Court of the STATE of M nine

To the Honorable Charles w. Walton .One
ofthe Justices of the Supreme judicial
Court of the State of Maine.
VNHE undersigned, Nathan Webb, Attorney of the
Il United States of America, for the District of
Maine being thereto duly authorized by the Honora-
ole Attorney General of said United States,
respectfully represents that the said United
States desrous of purchasing for the erection of
fort 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 follows:-
Beginning at the sea shore on 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 L. Webster, thence by said division
line West fty-two rods and five links thence North
twenty-eight and half degrees West ten rods these
lines being the last two written in said George c.
Thompson's deed, as recorded in Cumberland Regis
try Of Deeds, Boook PIG, page 1863; thence North
eleven degrees East five hundred and thirty feet
thence North sxty-eight degrees, East, three hun
dred and thirty feet to low water line in Ship Cove
this course being one hundred feet Southwark from
the point where the Northerly boundary OF said
Thompson's line intersects the high water line
thence by the shore eastery and southery to the
point begun at containing thirteen 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 G. Thompson, resi-
dent of said Cape Elizabeth, and capable of convey
ing the same tract to the said United States.
That the said George G. Thompson, owner as afore-
said Of said tract of land from disagreement in re-
gard to price from some other this appli-
cant and to the said United States unknown, hath
refused and still does refuse to convey said tract
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 he
published in some newspaper in Portland, nearest
to where said tract of land es in each week or
the space of four months, which notice shall con-
tain 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 tC
come forward day to be specified in said notice
and file their objections if any they shall have, to the
proposed purchase.
And this applicant further prays, that at the time
specified in said notice, a jury may be empannelled
in the manner now provided by law, to assess the
value of said lands at their fair value market value
and all damages sustained by the owner of the lands
so appropriated by of such appropriation; and
that such other and further proceedings may be had
in pursuance ofthe provisions of of the State
of Maine entitled "An act for the renquishment to
the United States in certain cases. of title to lands
sites of light stations the coast and waters of the
State, approved February Is, 1871 amended by al
act, entitled IAN Act to amend Chapter six hundred
and forty-niue of the private laws of thousand
eight hundred seventy relating to light houses
approved February 90 1879, may be requisite Il
convey to said United States good and absolute title
to the aforesaid tract of lan and the right of way
thereto, against all persons whatsoever, and will
ever pray.
Dated at Portland in the County of Cumberland
and State of Maine, this fifteenth day of June, A.
1872 NATHAN WEBB,
Attorney of the United States, for the District o
Maine.