The Portland daily press., 1873-03-13
To the Honorable Charles w. walton,
enc or the Justicss Of the Supreme } q.
~f fI,e IF NIAIme.

To the Honorable Charles w. Walton,
J;ciai Court of the state Of Maine.
yUyHE undersigned, Nathan Webb, Attorney OF the
United States of America TOR the District OF
Maine duly authorized agent Of said United states
United States aforesaid desirous Of purchasing
for the erection Of fort and battery certain tract
the County of Cumberland, within the limits of the
State of Maine, particularly bounded and described
q 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
southerly at right angles with said Light House
road seven hundred and nineteen feet less to
a copper bolt set in the line Of stone wall, which
mery Of Benjamin B. Dyer; thence easteriy by said
stone wall about four hundred and twenty-eight feet
to the sea shore; thence northeasterly by the sea
shore to the point where the southerly side line Of
the road from county road to the Light House pro-
longed would strike the shore at low water line;
thence westerly such prolongalon Of the souther
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-
b. Dyer, Of Cape Elizabeth aforesaid, and capable Of
conveying the same to said United States That the
tract Of land, from disagreement in regard to the
applicant and to the said United States unknown,
hath refused and still refuses to convey said tract Of
and to said United States:
Wherefore, this applicant in behalf OF said United
StaleS respectfully pfdyb your honor 10 OrQer notice
of this application conformabe with the provisions
of the Act Of the Legislature Of the State OF Maine
entitled "An act for observation-disclosures to the United
States in certain of title to lands for sites of
Hght stations the coast and waters of the State
approved February 49, 1871, amendedb an act en-
titled can Act to amend Chapter six hundred and
of the private laws Of thousand eight
hundred and seventy-one, relating to light houses"
approved February 20, 1872 to be published in some
newspaper in Portland nearest to where said tract
of land lies 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 shall require all
persons Interested in said lands to come forward
day to be specified in said notice and file their objec
uons, If any they should have, to the proposed pur
chs re-. -ssa rsta-si~- -
And this applicant, in behalf of said United States,
further prays, that on the return day specified In
said notice jury may be empanneled in the manner
provide by law to the vane Of said tract
ofland at its fair market value, and all damages
tanned by the of the lands appropriated by
reason Of such appropriation, and that such other
and further proceedings may be had in pursuance of
the aforesaid of the Legislature of the State of
Maine 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. s. ~ 80
Dated at Portland, in the County OF Cumberland,
the twenty-ninth day of October, A. D. 1872.
sf 40 a t,t sI' fsE NATHAN WEBB,
Attorney Of the United States for the District Of
Maine. rs..t 1sse r.. 4.ts.-.-