The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-10-08
To the Honorable Charles w. Walton ,oue
ofthe Justices of the Supreme Judicial
Court of the State of Maine.

To the Honorable Charles w. Walton .one
ofthe Justices of the Supreme judicial
Court of the State of Maine.
YNHE undersigned, Nathan Webb, Attorney of the
Il United States of America, for the District of
Maine, being thereto duly authorized by the Honora-
bic Attorney General of said United States
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 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 ffty-two rods and five links thence North
twenty and half degrees West ten rods (these
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;
bred and thirty feet to low water line in Shin Cove
this course being one hundred feet Southwark from
the point where tile Northerly boundary of said
Thompsons line intersects the high water line:
thence by the shore eastery and southery to the
point begun at containing thirteen less
together With right OF way thereto. Ela rs ' .. =
That the owner of said tract of land is supposed
and believed to be one George c. Thompson, a 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 70 price or from some other to this app-
can't and to the said United States unknown hath
refused and still does refuse convey said tract of
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
eoStiIoI I'LL IIfv or G1lc awner and
shall require all persons interested in said aius 70
come forward on 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
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 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 an 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 can Act to amend Chapter six hundred
and of the private laws of one thousand
eight hundred seventy relating to light houses"
approved February co. 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 will
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,