The Portland daily press., 1872-07-09
MISCELLANEOUS.
To the Honorable Charles w. Walton
one of the Justices of the Supreme Judi
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| FIyHE undersigned, Nathan Webb Attorney of tho
i 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 are desrous 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 Maine
bounded and described as follows, viz Beginning at
point on the southerly side Cf the road leading to
from the county road known the shore road tbenoe
southery at right angles with said Light House road
seven hundred and thirty feet to stone wall being
the southerly boundary of land OF Benjamin b. DYER
thence easterly four hundred feet by Said wall to the
sea-shore thence by thFeashore to land
owned by the United Statos and occIpied 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
That the sole owner Of said tract Of land Is sup
posed and believed to be, one Benjamin b. Dyer, a
resident of said Cape Elizabeth and capable Of con-
yeying the tract to the said United States That
the said Benjamin B. Dyer, owner as aforesaid of
said tract of land, from disagreement in regard to
price or 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 way thereto to said United States wherefore
order notice of this application to be published in
some newspaper in Portland, nearest to where said
tract Of land Hes once in each week for the space of
four months, which notice shall contain an accurate
description Of the said tract Of lad together with
the name Of the supposed owner, and shall require
all persons interested IN said lands to come forward
objections, If any they should have to the proposed
purchase. ..Hta as4
And this applicant further prays that ut the time
specified in said notice, jury may be empannelied
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 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 an act Of the State
OF Maine entitled IAN act for the REIMBURSEMENT to
the United States in certain of titles to lands
for sites of Light Stations the coast and waters of
"the State" Approved February IS, 1871. Amended
by an act entitled, "an act to amend chapter six
hundred and forty.nne Of the private laws of
Thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, relating
may be requisite to convey to said United States,
good and absolute title to the aforesaid tract of Ian
and the right of way thereto against all persons what
soever, and as in duty bound will eyer 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