The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-09-24
To the Honorable Charles w. Walton
one of the Justices of the Supreme Judi
ciaI Court of the Stnte of NEnine.

cial Court of the State of Maine.
TVNHE 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
represents 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
Elizabeth, within the limits of the State of Name
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
southery at right angles with said Light House road;
seven hundred and thirty feet to stone wall, being
the soutberly boundary Of land of Benjamin b. Dyer
thence easterly four hundred feet by said wall the
seashore thence northeastery by to land
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.
That the sole owner of said tract of land is SUD-
posed and believed to be- one Benjamin b. Dyer,
resident Of said Cape Elizabeth and capable of con-
veyng the tract to the said United States That
said tract of land, from disagreement in regard to
price from some 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 thereto to said United States 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 lies, 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
on Gay TO be speclhed in said notice. and file their
objections, If any they should have to the proposed
purchase
And this applicant further avs that at the time
specified 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
all damages sustained by the owner of the lands so
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 to
the United States in certain of titles to lands
for sites ofLght Stations the coast and waters of
by an act entitled, "an act to amend chapter six
hundred and forty-nine of the private laws of one
Thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, relating
"to light houses" Approved February 20, 1872, as
may be requisite to convey to said United States, a
good and absolute title to the aforesaid tract Of and
and the right of way thereto against all persons what
soevsr, and as in duty bound will ever pray.
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 of
Main