The Portland daily press., 1872-11-05
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
the N onornbIc Charles w. Walton,
one OF .ne sussices of the Supreme Ju-
dfclai Court of the STATE of sSaiue.

--.~-.- S~aAs VI the STATE OF NEaImes
fHNHE undersigned, Nathan Webb. Attorney of the
IL United States of America Tor the District of
Maine duly authorized agent of said limited States
for this purpose respectfully represents tbot the
United States aforesaid are desrons ~ nIos;ng
for the erection of fort and battery certain tract
of land situated in the town Of Cape Elizabeth in
the County of Cumberland, within the limits Of tbe
State of Maine particularly bounded and described
folows:- Beginning at a copper bolt in a rock on
the southery side of the road leading from the coun
ty road to the Portland Head Light House. said cop
per bolt being about eleven hundred feet distant
from the county road known the shore road thence
southerly at light angles with said Light House
road seven hundred and nineteen feet less tn
copper bolt set in the line of stone wall, which
wall is tho southerly boundary of land now or for
merry of Benjamin b. Dyer; thence easterly by said
stone wall about four hundred and twentyeght feet
to the sea shore; thence northeasterly by the sea
shore to the point where the southerly side line of
the road from county road to the Light House pro-
onged would strike the shore at low water line;
thence westerly on such prolongatlon of the souther
H side line of the road to the Light House to the first
bounds said described parcel OF land containing
about nine acres That the sole owner Of said de-
scribed tract Of land is supposed to be Benjamin
H. 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 tue same or from some other cause to this
applicant and to the said United States unknown,
hath refused and still refuses to convey said tract OF
land to said United States;
Wherefore, this applicant, i'm behalf of said Uni 9 |
States respectfully prays your Honor to order notice
of this application conformable with the provisions
VI Az VI Tue OF State OF btlle
entitled IAN act for the REIMBURSEMENT to the United
States in certain cases of title to lands for sites of
light stations ON the coast and waters of the State
approved February Is, 1871 amended by an act
titled AN Act to amend Chapter six hundred and
OF the private laws of one thousand eight
hundred and seventyone, 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 come forward
day to be specified in said notice and file their objec
tons, if any they should have, to the proposed pur
chase.
And this applicant, in behalf of said United States
further prays, that the return day specified in
| said notice jury may be empanneed in the manner
now provided by law to the valve of said tract
ofland at its fair market value, and all damages
tanned by the owner of the lands appropriated by
reason OF such appropriation, and that such other
and further proceedings may be had in pursuance o.
the aforesaid acts of the Legislature of the State
Maine as may be requisite to convey to said United
States Of America good and absolute title to tn,
abeve described tract of land against all pei SON
| whatsoever; and go will ever pray.
Dated at Portland, in the County Of Cumberland
| the twenty day of October, A. ID. 1872.
| NATHAN WEBB
Attorney of the United States for the District 0
| Maine.