The Portland daily press., 1872-11-13
To she Honorable Charles w. Walton,
one of the Justices of the Supreme Ju-
diciaI Court of the Stale of Maine.

To tIie Honorable Charles w. Walton.
one of the Justices of the Supreme Ju-
dieiaI Court of the State of Maine.
TENHE undersigned, Nathan Webb, ATTORNEY of the
IL United States of America for the District of
Maine, duly authorized agent of said United States
for this purpose, respectfully represents that the
for the erection of fort and battery certain tract
be Hou hS 81 WtnG a9 u II
state of Maine, particularly bounded and described
as folows:- BEGINNING at copper bolt in a rock on
the so9therly side Of the road leading from the coun
per bolt being about eleven hundred feet distant
from the county road known the shore road thence
southery at light angles with said Light House
road hundred and nineteen feet more or less to
copper bolt set in the line of stone WALL which
wall is the southerly boundary of land or for
stone wall about four hundred and twenty-eight 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-
longed would strike the shore at low water line
thence weserS such prolongatlon of the souther-
y 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
B. Dyer OF Cape Elizabeth aforesaid and capabe of
conveying the same to said United States That the
said Benjamin B. Dyer, owner as aforesaid of said
tce 81 t ana rom disagreement in regard to the
price OF the 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, in behalf of said United
oIaies respectfully prays your Honor to order notice
OF this application conformable with the provisions
OF the Act OF the Legislature of the State of Maine
entitled An act for the REIMBURSEMENT to the United
States III certain cases of title to lands for sites of
lght stations on the coast and waters of the State
approved Feb uary 49, 1871 amended by an act en-
Titled AN Act to amend Chapter six hundred and
forty-nine OF the private laws of one thousand eight
nun red and seventy-one, relating to light hOuses
approved February 20, 1872, to be published in some
newspaper in Portland nearest to where said tract
OF land lies once in each week for the SPACE of four
months, which notice shall contain an accurate de-
scrition OF said tract of land, together with the
name OF the supposed owner, and shall REQUIRE ali
persons interested in said lands to come forward on
day to be specified in said notice and file their ob;ec
chase. PN'p0'o" Pu'-
And this applicant in behalf of said United States
1urther prays that on the return day specified in
sald notlce jury may be empannelled in the manner
now provided by law to the valve of said tract
OF and at its fair market vaue and all damages sns
tanned by the owner of the lands so appropriated nv
reason OF such appro Ration, and that such other
ana further proceedings may be had in pursuance of
tne Aforesaid acts of the Legislature of the State Of
Salne as may be requisite to convey to said United
rates OF America good and absolute title 10 the
a9eye described tract of land against an pe,sons
whatsoever; and so will ever pray. f
, Dated at Portland, in the County of Cumberland
the twenty-ninth day of October A. d. 1879. ''
Adj. NATHAN WEBB.
Maine A 'nS Dioeiict Oh