The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-02-26
To the Honorable Charles w. Walton,
one of the Justices of the Supreme Ju.
IiciaI Court of the State of Maine.

dIclal Court OF tine State Oh Malnes
YVHE undersigned, Nathan Webb, Attorney OF the
Maine duly authorized agent of said United States
for this purpose, respectfully represents that the
for the erection of fort and battery certain tract
of land situated in the town of Cape Elizabeth, in
the County of Cumberland, within the limits of the
State of Maine particularly bounded and described
as foilows:- Beginning at copper bolt in rock
the southerly side of the road leading from the
ty road to lie Portland Head Light House, said cop
pei bolt being about eleven hundred feet distant
from the county road known as the shore r0ad thence
southerly at right angles with said Light House
road seven hund ed and nineteen feet less to
copper bolt set in the line of stone wall, which
wall is the sOutherly boundary of land now or for.
merly of Benjamin B. Dyer thence easterlJ by said
stone wall about four hundred and twentyeight feet
to the sea shore; thence northeasterly by the sea
shore to the point where the southery side line OF
the road from county road to the Light House pro-
thence westerly such prolongatlon of the sonther
ly side line of the road to the Light House to the first
bounds; said described parcel OF land containing
about nine acres. That the sole owner of said de-
scribed tract of land Is supposed to be Benjamin
B. Dyer, of Cape Elizabeth aforesaid and capable of
conveying the same to said United States. That the
said benjamin B. Dyer, owner as aforesaid Of said
tract of land, from disagreement in regard to the
price of the same or from some other cause to this
applicant and to the said United States unknown,
hath refused and still refuses to convey said tract Of
and to said United States; tls
Wherefore, this applicant in behalf OF said United
Of this application conformable with the provisions
Of the Act of the Legislature of the State OF Maine
entitled can act for the REIMBURSEMENT to the United
States in certain Of title to lands for sites of
light stations on the coast and waters of the State
approved February 49, 1871, amended by an act en-
titled 'tAn Act to amend Chapter six hundred and
forty-nine of the private laws of thousand eight
hundred and seventyone, relating to light houses,'
approved February 20, 1872 to be published in
newspaper in Portland nearest to where said tract
of land lies in each week for the space of four
months which notice shall contain accurate de-
scription of 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 obec
tions any they should have, to the proposed pur
ch: re.
And this applicant in behalf of said United States,
further prays, that on the return day specified in
said notice jury may be empannelled in the manner
provide by law to assess the value of said tract
of land at its fair market value and all damages sus
tanned by the owner of the lands appropriated by
reason Of such appro roriation, and that such other
and further proceedings may be had in pursuance of
the aforesaid of the Legislature of the State of
Maine as may be requisite to convey to said United
States of America good and absolute title TO the
above described tract OF land against all persons
whatsoever; and SO will ever pray. q
Dated at Portland, in the County of Cumberland,
the twenty ninth day of October A. D. 1872.
NATHAN WEBB,
Attorney of the United States for the District Of