The Portland daily press., 1873-02-12
To the Honorable ohar,es W. Walton,

To the Honorable Charles w. Walton,
one Of the Justices of the Supreme Ju-
dicial Court of the State of Maine.
fT'HE undersigned, Maj han Webb, ATTORNEY OF the
Il United States of America tor the District Of
Maine duly authorized agent of said United States
Or TINS purpose, respectfully represents that the
LOT the erection of frt and battery cert lin tract
Of land situated in the town of Cape Elizabe h, in
Sne County Of Cumberland, within the limits of the
state Of Maine, particularly bounded and described
40 foilows:- 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
Re, bolt being about eleven hundred feet distant
rom county road known as the shore 70 d. thence
southerly at light angles with said Light House
road seven hundred and nineteen feet more or less t.
copper bolt set in the line of stone wall, which
wall Is the southerly boundary Of land now or 1oi,
stons vail eh ms ln n% feet
70 the sea shore; thence northeasterly by TIE sef
shore to the point where the southerly SIDE me o.
the road from county road to the Light hose ,ine
tonged would strike the shore at low Ha.oi
thence westerly on such proonga'lon OF ~. tS irst
y side line of the road the Light House 70
bounds; said described parcel OF IAN con. ny; d
about nine acres. That the sole owner o. %,
serbed tract Of land supposed 70 &c an caabe of
conveying the SINE to said United States. Ihat The
said Benjamin B. Dyer, owner as ~ ar o. saio
price of tbe same or from other cause to this
applicant and to the said United States unknown,
hath refused and Sill refuses 10 convey SAID tract OF
land to said Uni cd States
wherefore this applicant, in behalf OF said United
States. pfdys your order notice
Of this application, conformable with the provisions
of the Act of the Legislature of the State of Maine
entitled IAN act for the relnq to the United
States in certain OF tile to lands for sites of
light stations on the coast and waters of the State
approved Feb uary 49, 1871 amended by ar act en-
titled IAN Act to amend Chapter six hundred and
OF the private laws of one thousand eight
hun ired and seventy-one, relating light houses
approved February 20, 1872, to be published in some
newspaper in Portland nearest to where said tract
OF nd lies once in each week for the space Of four
months, which notice shall contain an accurate de-
scrtption OF said tract of land, together with the
name or 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-
tons, any they should have, to the proposed pur-
And this applicant, In behalf of said United States
fuIther prays, that on the return day specified In
SAID notice jury may be empanneled in the manner
now provide by law to assess the val of said tract
ofand at its fair market value and all damages sus
tanned 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 of
plane 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
thetwenty-ninth day of October. A. d. 1872.
l sHs-fE NATHAN WEBB
Attorney Of the United States for the District of