The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-03-03
STORE TO LET.
To the Honorable Charles w. Walton,
one of the Justices of the Supreme j n
diciaI Court of the Sl0fa of Maine.

diciaI Court of the State of Maine.
EyHE 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 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 Beginning at copper bolt in rock on
the southerly side of the road leading from the coun-
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 road thence
southerly at right angles with said Light House
road hundred and nineteen feet more or less to
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 easterly by SAID
stone wall about four hundred and 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 proongaon of the sonther-
ly side line of the road TO the Light House to the rst
bounds; said described parcel OF land containing
about nine acres. That the sole owner OF said de-
scribed tract of land 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
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, conformable with the provisions
of the Act of the Legislature of the State Maine
entitled San act for the REIMBURSEMENT to the United
States in certain Of title to lands for sites of
fight stations the coast and waters of the Statep
approved February Is, 1877 amended by act en-
titled San 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 es once in each week for the space of four
months, which notice shall contain accurate de-
scription of said tract 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
tons, If any they should have, to the proposed pur
chase. - = 'siss s2t-ss 80 tfh
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
ofland at its fair market value and all damages
tained 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 to the
above described tract of land against all persons
whatsoever; and SO will ever pray. Ii y
Dated at Portland, in the County of Cumberland,
the twenty day of October A. d. 1872. SiEl
NATHAN WEBB, y
Attorney Of the United States for the District Of
Maine,