The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-08-05
To the Honorable Charles w. Walton .onc
ofthc Justices of the Supreme Judicial
Court of the State of Maine

Oh inc ID ustlceh Oh the supreme judicial
Court ofthe State of Maine.
TENHE 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 G Thompson.
America, of Asa T. Webster, thence by said division
line West ffty-two rods and five links thence North
lines being the last two written in said George c.
Thompson's deed, as recorded in Cumberland Regis
try OF d Deeds Boo Bo9ok 2s 4e thence North
thence North sixty-eight degrees, East three hum
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
Ihompson'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.
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 convex
ing the same tract to the said United States.
That the said George g Thompson, owner as afore-
gard to price from other cause to this app-
cant 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 pravs
your Honor to order notice of this application to be
published in some newspaper in Portland, nearest
to where said tract of land es in each week for
the space of four months, which notice shall con-
tain an accurate description of the said 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 if any they shall have to 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
so appropriated by reason of such appropriation and
that such other and further proceedings may be had
in pursuance ofte provisions of an 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 49, 1871 amended by an
act, entitled "An Act to amend Chapter six hundred
and f3rty-nine of the private laws Of one 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 SO viii
ever pray.
Dated at Portland, in the County of Cumberland
and State of Maine, this fifteenth day of juno A. D.
1872. NATHAN WE'RE ~
Attorney of the United States for the District Of