The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-08-26
To the Honorable Charles w. Walton one
Ofthe Justices of the Supreme Judicial
Court of the State of Maine

Court of the State of Maine.
FENHE undersigned, Nathan Webb, Attorney of the
Il United States Of America, for the District Of
Maine being thereto duly authorized by the Honora-
BILE Attorney General Of said United States
respectfully represents that the said United
States are DESTROYS OF purchasing for the erection of
the town Of Cape Elizabeth within the limits of the
State of Maine, bounded and described as follows
Beginning at the sea shore the division line be.
tween the land belonging to George c. Thompson
and the land recently bought by the United States
America, of Asa T. Webster thence by said division
line West ffty-two rods and five links thence NORTH
twenty-eght and half degrees West ten rods (hese
lines being the last two written in said George G
Thompson's deed, as recorded in Cumberland Regis
eleven degrees East five hundred and thirty feet
thence North sixty eight degrees, East three hun
dred and thirty feet to low water line in Ship Cove
this course being ehe hundred feet Southwark from
the point where the Northerly boundary of said
Thompson's line intersects the high water line
thence by the sea shore easry and southery to the
point begun containing thirteen acres 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, a resi-
dent OF said Cape Elizabeth, and capable of convey
ing the same tract to the said United States
That the said George c. Thompson, owner as afore
said of said tract of land from disagreement in re-
gard price or from some other to this appli-
cant and to the said United States unknown hatl
refused and still does refuse to convey said tract
land and the righr of way thereto to said United
Wherefore this applicant respectfully prays
your Honor, to order notice of this application TO be
published in some newspaper in Portland nearest
to where said tract of land les in each week fol
the space of four months which notice shall con.
tain 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 on day to be specified in said notice
and file their objections, if any they shall have 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 of the lands
SO appropriated by reason of such appropriation and
that such other and further proceedings may be had
in pursuance ofthe provisions of an act of the State
Of Maine entitled San act for the REIMBURSEMENT to
the United States in certain cases. of title lands for
sites of light stations the coast and waters of the
State, approved February IS, 1871, amended by an
act entitled IAN Act to amend Chapter six hundred
and forty nine of the private laws of thousand
eight hundred seventyone, relating to light houses"
February 90 1872 as 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 against all persons whatsoever and so will
ever pray.
Dated at Portland, in the County of Cumberland
and State of Maine, this fifteenth day of june A. D.,
1872. NATHAN WEBB
Attorney of the United States, for the District of
Maine.