The Portland daily press., 1872-08-06
To the Honorable Charles w. Walton one
ofthe Justices of tl,c Supreme Judicial
Court of the state of nine.

0fthe j Justices of the Supreme Judicial
Court of the State of Maine.
TNHE undersigned, Nathan Webb, Attorney Of the
T. United States Of America, for the District Of
Maine being thereto duly authorized BY the Honora-
bic 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 az follows =
the land Belonging to George Tom nS
America, of Asa T. Webster, thence by said division
line West ffty-two rods and five links thence NORTH
twentyeight and half degrees West ten rods, these
Lines being the last two written in said George c.
Thompson's deed, as recorded in Cumberland Regis
try Of Deeds, Book ZIG, page 465); 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 sea shore easery and southery to the
point begun containing thirteen more or less
together With right of way thereto.
That the owner of said tract of land is supposed
dent of said Cape Elizabeth and capable Of convex
ing the same tract to the said United States
That the said George G. Thompson, owner as afore-
said of said tract of land from disagreement in re-
gard to price from some other cause to this apn
!. can't 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
published in some newspaper in Portland, nearest
to where said tract of land es once in each week for
tain 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 nile their objections, If any they shall have to the
proposed purchase.
And this applicant further prays that at the time
specified in said notice. a jury NAV be empanneiIed
in the manner now provided by law to assess the
value OF said lands at their fair value market value
Gag GIroto fr1nd hxxkl
SO appropriated by reason of such appropriation and
that such other and further proceedings may be had
IN 9fthe provisions Of an act of the State
OF Maine entitled IAN act for the REIMBURSEMENT to
the United States in certain cases. of title 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 one thousand
eight hundred seventy relating to light houses,
approved feDruary 20, 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
er against all persons whatsoever, and SO will
Dated at Portland in the County of Cumberland
a and State OF Maine, this fifteenth day Of june d.
Attorney of the United States, for the District of
Maine. = = "
STATE OF MAINE.
CUMBERLAND S.
Upon the foregoing application by Nathan Webb.
Attorney Of the United States OF America, it having
been made to appear to me- that the said applicant Is
duly authorized agent of said United States 10 make
the same and that the matters of fact therein set
forth are true and that the said application contains
an accurate description of the lands proposed to be
purchased, together with the name Of ali known or
supposed owners Of said lands it is
Ordered, That notice of said application be- given
to all persons interested in the lands therein describ-
ca, and especially to George c. Thompson,
come forward in the Supreme Judicial Court. in
Portland in the county of Cumberland ON Friday the
eighteenth day Of October a d. 1872 at ten O'Clock in
the forenoon and file their objections any they shall
nave 70 the proposed purchase by said United States
OF said lands, by publication of true and attested
copy ofthe same application and of this order there
on once in each week for the space of four months
N the Portland Daily PRESS, newspaper published
In Portland nearest to where the land lies the last
publication to be on Monday, the fourteenth day Of
=, Dated at Portland in the County of Cumberland.
the seventeenth day of June, A. D., 1872.
Justice Of the Supreme Judicial Court. |
A true copy of application and order of Justice of |
Supreme Judicial Court thereon. |
Attest. d. w. FESSENDEN, Clerk.