The Portland daily press., 1873-01-30
MISCELLANEOUS.
To the Honorable Charles w. Walton,
one of the Justic of the Supreme j u-
dicial Court of the State of Maine.

rTyHE undersigned, Nathan Webb, Attorney OF the
Il United States of America tor the Dlstrlct Oh
Name duly authorized agent of said United States
for this purpose respectfully represents that the
United States aforesaid are DESTROYS 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 me
State of Maine, and descripeu
as follows BEGINNING at copper bolt in roch on
the southery side of the road leading from the eoui
ty road to he Portland Head Light House sag
pei bolt being about eleven hundred feet 3hanne
from the county road known the shore rold Se
southery at right angles with sald LEI or LOGS to
road seven hundred and nineteen 1eet ne vail which
conner bolt set in the line OF STONY wan, LII IN
wall Is the southery boundary of land now OF 1or,
mery of Benjamin b. Dyer thence d easst Gy sald
s.o1 S "a shore: thence northeasterly by the sea
bore 70 the point where the southerly side line of
tho road from county road to the Light House pro-
ionged would strike the shore at low water line;
thence westerly on such proongalon of the souther
" side line Of the road to the Light House to the first
about nine acres. That the sole owner of said de.
scrbed tract of land is supposed to be one 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
applicant and to the said United States unknown,
hath refused and still refuses to convey said tract Of
land to said United States;
Wherefore, this applicant, in behalf OF said United
States respectfully prays your Honor to order notice
of this application confornable with the provisions
of the Act of the Legislature of the State of Maine
entitled IAN act for observation-disclosures to the UnlteO
States in certain of title to lands for sites
light stations the coast and waters of the State,
approved February Is, 1871 amended by an act en-
| titled San Act to amend Chapter six hundred and
forty mine OF the private laws of thousand eigh
hundred and seventy-one, relating to light houses,
approved February 90 1872, to be published in SOM
newspaper in Portland, nearest to where said trac
Of land les once in each week for the space of fou
| months which notice shall contain an accurate de
scription of said tract of land, together with tn
name of the supposed owner, and shall require al
persons interested in said lands to forward on
day to be specified in said notice and file their objec
tions 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
said notice jury may be empannelled in the manne
provide by law to the value of said trae
Of land at its fair market value and all damages sus
tanned by the owner of the lands appropriated b
reason Of such appropriation, and that such otht
and further proceedings may be had in pursuance
the aforesaid of the Legislature of the State
Maine may be requisite to convey to said Unite
States of America good and absolute title TO I'll
above described tract of land against all pelsor
whatsoever; and so will ever pray.
Dated at Portland, in the County of Cumberlan,
the twenty day of October. A. d. 1872.
NATHAN WEBB,
Attorney Of the United States for the District
Maine