The Portland daily press., 1872-09-02
To the Honorable Charles w. Walton ,one
efthc Justices of the Supreme Judicial
Court of the State of Maine

To the Honorable Charles W. Walton one
o. the Justices of the Supreme Judicial
COurt of the State of Maine.
FENHE undersigned, Nathan Webb, Attorney Of the
= United States Of America, for the District of
Maine being thereto duly authorized by the Honora-
that 'af The .ss S Sntsa
States DESTROYS Of purchasing for the erection of
ort and battery certain tract OF land, situated in
State Of Maine, bounded and described as follows
Beginning at the sea shore the division line be-
tween a the land belonging 70 Gsorse G. Thompson,
America, of Asa I. Webster, thence BY said division
line West ffy-two rods and five links thence North
twentyeight and half degrees West ten rods these
lines being the last two written in said George g.
Ihompson's deed, as recorded in Cumberland Regis
Try OF Deeds, Book PIG, page 1853; thence North
thence North sixty-eight degrees, East three hun,
dred and thirty feet to low water line in Ship Cove
the point where the Northerly boundary of said
Thompson'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. -
mat the owner OF said tract of land is supposed
and believed to be one George 9 Thompson a resi-
dent of said Cape Elizabeth, and capable of convex
ing the same tract to the said United States
That the said George c. Thompson owner as afore-
sad Of said tract of land from disagreement in re-
gard = price or from some other to this app-
can't and to the said United States unknown. hath
refused and still does refuse to convey said tract
land and the righr of way thereto to said United
States.
Wherefore this applicant respectfully prays
your Honor to order notice Of this application to 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 an 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
III 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 of the lands
SO appropriated by 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 IAN Act to amend Chapter six hundred
and forty-nlue of the private laws Of thousand
eght hundred seventy-one, 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 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 WE'RE " ~
Attorney of the United States, for the District of
Maine.