The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-07-02
To the Honorable Charles w. Walton .one
Offhe Justices of the Supreme Judicial
Court of the state nj Maine

Court OF the state of Maine.
TINHE 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,
States DESTROYS of purchasing for the erection of
fort and battery certain tract land situated in
the town Of Cape Elizabeth, within the limits of the
State OF Maine, bounded and described as folows:-
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 Of
America of Asa I. Webster, thence by said division
line West ffty-two rods and five links; thence North
twenty eight and half degrees West ten rods hese
lines being the last two written in said George G.
thompson deed, as recorded in Cumberland Regis
try OF Deeds, Book PIG, page 1863; thence North
eleven degrees East five hundred and thirty feet;
thence North xty-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
Ihompson's line intersects the high water line;
thence by the shore eastery and southery to the
point begun at 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 c. 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 re-
gard to price or from some other cause to this app-
can't and to the said United States unknown, hath
refused and still does refuse to convey said tract of
land and the rghr of way thereto 10 said United
States.
Wherefore this applicant respectfully prays
your Honor to order notice of this application to be
to where said tract of land les in each week for
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 to
come forward on day to be specified in said notice.
ana ME their objections II 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 empanneled
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 reason of such appropriation and
that such other and further proceedings may be had
in pursuance ofthe provisions of act of the State
OF Maine entitled AN act for the REIMBURSEMENT to
the United States in certain cases. of title to lands for
sites Of light stations the and waters of the
State approved February IS, 1871, amended by an
act, entitled IAN Act to amend Chapter six hundred
and forty of the private laws of one thousand
eight hundred seventy-one relating to light houses"
approved February 20, 1872, may be requisite to
convey to said United Statesa 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