The Portland daily press., 1872-10-15
To the Honorable Charles w. Walton .one
0fthe Justices of the Supreme Judicial
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To the Honorable Charles w. Walton .one
ofthe Justices of the Supreme Judicial
Court of the State of Maine.
TTyHE undersigned Nathan Webb, Attorney of the
l. United States of America, for the District of
Maine being thereto duly authorized by the Honora-
respectfully res that sf the sad nteS
States desrous 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-
TIVE tween a the Ella land belongng to George Thompson,
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
lines being the last two written in said George c.
Thompsons deed, as recorded in Cumberland Regis
esess as H6 d46s t5,v 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 sea shore easter and southery to the
together With right of way thereto. s...-.z
That the owner of said tract of land is supposed
and believed to be one George G. Thompson, resi-
dent of said Cape Elizabeth and capable of convey
ing the same tract to the said United States.
That a the said George 9 Thompson, owner as afore-
gard to price from other cause 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.
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 es once 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 the
proposed purchase
And this applicant further prays, that at the time
specified in said notice. a 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 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 An 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-nine of the private laws of thousand
eight 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 and the right of way
thereto, against all persons whatsoever, and will
ever pray.
Dated at Portland, in the County of Cumberland
and State of Maine, this fifteenth day of june A. d.
1872. NATHAN WEIR -
Attorney of the United States, for the District of
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