The Portland daily press., 1872-09-16
To thc Honorable Charles w. Walton .one
of the Justices Of the Supreme Judicial
Court of the Sfafe of M aine

COuEt "a tHc SthtC VI I'VE hIne
TEIHE undersigned, Nathan Webb, Attorney of the
Il United States of America, for the District of
Maine, being thereto duly authorized by the Honora-
Die Attorney General Of said United States
States are DESTROYS of purchasing for the erection of
fort and battery certain tract of land situated in
the town of Cape Elizabeth, within the limits of the
State of Maine, bounded and described as follows:-
Beginning at the sea shore on the division line be-
tween n the land belonging to George G. Thompson,
America of Asa L. Webster, thence by said division
line West ffty-two rods and five links thence North
twenty-eight and half degrees West ten rods (these
lines being the last two written in said George c.
Ihompson's deed, as recorded in Cumberland Regis
Try OF Deeds, Book ZIG, page 1863; thence North
thence North sixty-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
Thompson's line intersects the high water line;
thence by the sea shore estery and southery to the
point begun at containing thirteen or less
together With right of way thereto. as
That the owner of said tract of land is supposed
aud believed to be one George g. Thompson, resi-
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 in re-
gard price or from some other cause to this appi
can't and to the said United States unknown hath
refused and still does refuse to convey said tract of
land and the righr of way thereto to said United
States. .t.~l.. VIZ
Wherefore this applicant respectfully prays
your Honor to order notice of this application TO be
to where said tract of land lies 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 day to be specified in said notice.
and file their objections if any they shall have to the
proposed purchase.
And this applicant further prays that at the time
specified in said notice, jury may be empanneled
III the manner now provided by law, to assess the
value of said lands al their fair value market value
aud all damages sustained by the owner of the lands
SO appropriated by of such appropriations and
that such other and further proceedings may be had
in pursuance ofthe provisions of act Of the State
OF Maine entitled San act for the REIMBURSEMENT to
the United States in certain cases. 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-nine of the private laws of one thousand
eight hundred seventy relating to light houses
approved 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 viii
ever pray
Dated at Portland, in the County of Cumberland
and State Of Maine, this fifteenth day of June A. D.
1872. NATHAN WEIR y
Attorney of the United States, for the District of
Maine.