The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-02-10

To the Honorable Charles w. Walton,
one Of the Justic Of the Supreme Ju-
dicial Court Of the State of Maine.
rIvHE undersigned, Nathan Webb, Attorney OF the
i United States of America tor the District Of
Maine, duly authorized agent of said United States
f,r this purpose, respectfully represents that the
United States aforesaid DESTROYS Of purchasing
for the erection of frt and battery certain tract
of land situated in the town of Cape Elizabeth in
State of Maine, particularly bounded and described
as follows:- BEGINNING at copper bolt in rock on
ty road to he Portland Head Light House. said cop
pei bolt being about eleven hundred feet distant
from the county road known as the shore 3D. thence
road humid ed and nineteen feet more or less
a 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 eastery by said
stone wall about four hundred and twenty-eight feet
to the sea shore; thence northeasterly by the sea
Ehore to the point where the southery side line of
the road from county road to the Light House pro-
longed would strike the sea shore at low water ine
thence westerly such prolongalon of the sonther
y side line of the road the Light House 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
u. Dyer, OF Cape Elizabeth aforesaid, and capable Of
conveying the same to said United States. That the
said Benjamin B. Dyer, owner aforesaid OF said
tract Of land, from disagreement in regard to the
applicant and to the said United States unknown,
hath refused and still refuses convey said tract of
land to said United States
Wherefore this applicant in behalf OF said United
States respectfully prays your Honor to order notice
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 IAN Act TO amend Chapter six Hundred and
forty-nne OF the private laws Of one thousand eight
hunred and seventyone, relating to light houses %
approved February 90 1872, 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 contain an accurate de-
scriptiOn of said tract of land together with the
name Of the supposed owner, and snail require all
persons interested in said lands to forward on
day to be specified in said notice and file their objec-
tons, if any they should have, to the proposed pur
chase,
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
now provide by law to assess the vae of said tract
ofland at its fair market value and all damages sus-
tained by the owner of the lands appropriated by
reason of such approl ration and that such other
and further proceedings may be had in pursuance OF
the aforesaid acts of the Legislature of the State
Maine may be requisite to convey to said United
States Of America good and absolute title TO tile
above described tract of land against all pei sons
whatsoever; and SO will ever pray.
Dated at Portland, in the County of Cumberland
the twenty-ninth day of October. A. d. 1872.
NATHAN WEBB,
Attorney Of tho United States for the District Of
Maine.