The Portland daily press., 1873-02-14
w. D. LITTLE & co., Agents.
feb12 I.f .F F. If
To the Honorable Charles w. Walton,
one of the Justices of the Supreme Ju.
dicinI COurf n the Srafe of m n inc.

To the Honorable Charles w. Walton,
ono of the Justices Of the Supreme Ju-
dicinI Court of the State of Maine.
rIyHE undersigned Nathan Webb, Attorney OF the
i United States of America for the District Of
Maine, duly authorized agent of said United States
ns sra ny 1as tne
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 follows:B 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 the shore road thence
southerly at right angles with said Light House
road seven hundred and nineteen feet or less to
copper bolt set in the line of stone wall, which
wall Is the southery boundary of land now or for
merly of Benjamin b. DYER thence easterly by said
stone wall about four hundred and twenty-eght 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 on such proongaton Of the soutaer
bounds; said described parcel of land containing
about nine acres. That the sole owner of said de-
scrbed 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
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; %.
Wherefore, this applicant, in behalf of said United
States respectfully prays your Honor to order notice
of this application, conormabe 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
tight stations on the coast and waters of the State"
approved February IS, 1871 amended by an act en-
titled "An Act to amend Chapter six Hundred and
OF the private lawsof one thousand eight
hundred 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 lies 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 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 empannelledin the manner
now provide by law to the value 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 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 10 the
above described tract OF land against all persons
| 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 the United States for the District of
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