The Portland daily press., 1873-03-10
To the Honorable Charles w. Walton,
one of the Justices of the Supreme Ju-
diciaI Court of the State of Maine.

VyHE undersigned, Nathan Webb, Attorney OF the
Il United States of America for the District of
Maine duly authorized agent of said United States
for this purpose, respectfully represents that the
United States aforesaid desirous of purchasing
for the erection of fert 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
the southery side of the road leading fromtbe coun-
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 hundred and nineteen feet more or less to
copper bolt set in the line of stone wall, which
wall is the southery boundary of land now or for
mery of Benjamin b. Dyer; thence easterly 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 ine
thence westerly such prolongaion of the souther
y side line of the road to the Light House to the first
bounds said described parcel of lan1 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
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: s58a aErqNE -
Wherefore this applicant, in behalf OF said United
States. respectfully prays your Honor to order notice
of this application, c0nformable with the provisions
of the Act Of the Legislature of the State OF Maine
entitled sAn act for the herelinquishment to 5nted
States in certain of title to 1ds for sites of
light stations on the coast u waters Of the State"
approved February 1871 amended by act en-
titled "AArnctt to amend Chapter six hundred and |
-ry-nne OF the private laws of one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-one, relating to light houses"
February 20, 1872 to be published in
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 forward
day to be specified in said notice and file their objec
tions If any they should have, to the proposed pur-
chs Sc.
And this applicant, in behalf of said United States,
further prays, that on the return day specified in
said notice jury may be empanneledn in the manner
now provide by law to the value of said tract
of land at its fair market value, and all damages
tainod by the of the lands SO appropriated by
reason Of such appropriation, and that such other
and further proceedings may be had in pursuance of
the aforesaid acts 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
and SO will ever pray. - Ii 4g-3
Dated at Portland, in the County of Cumberland,
the twenty ninth day of October, A. d. 1872. q
NATHAN WEBB,
Attorney Of the United States for the District Of
Maine.