The Portland daily press., 1872-07-16
To the Honorable Charles w. Walton .One
ofthe Justices of the Supreme Judicial
Court of the State of Maine,

ofthe Justices of the Supreme Judicial
Court of the State of Maine.
FTNHs undersigned, Nathan Webb, Attorney of the
i Emitted States of America, for the District of
Maine, being thereto duly authorized by the Honora-
BILE Attorney General of said United States,
respectfully represents that the said United
States 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 the land belonging to George C. Thompson,
and the land recently bought by the United States Of
America, of Asa T. Webster thence by said division
line West fftytwo rods and five links thence North
twentyeght and half degrees West ten rods (these
lines being the last two written in said George G..
Thompson S deed, as recorded in Cumberland Regis
try OF Deeds, Book PIG, page 1859; thence North
eleven degrees East five hundred and thirty feet;
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
Thompsons line ntersects the high water line;
thence by the shore eastefy and southery to the
point begun at thirteen 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 c. Thompson owner as afore-
said OF said tract OF land from disagreement in re-
gard to price or from some other to this appi-
cant 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. A
Wherefore this applicant respectfully prays
your Honor to order notice of this application 10 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 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.
and file their objections, any they shall have to the
proposed purchase.
And this applicant further prays 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 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 san act for the REIMBURSEMENT to
the United States in certain cases. of title 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-nine of the private laws Of thousand
eight hundred seventyone relating to light houses'
approved February 20, 1872, 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. A'f-Tl = -
Dated at Portland, in the County of Cumberland
and State OF Maine, this fifteenth day of June A. d.
1872. r NATHAN WE'RE
Attorney of the United States, for the District of
Maine,