The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-03-25
To the Honorable Charles w. Walton.
one of the Justic of the Supreme Ju-
dicial Court of the State of Maine

u " tuC HAOuOfaUic Ou6fteS W. WaIt0n<
one of the Justic 8 of the Supreme la
dicial Court of the State of Maine
INHE undersigned, MAI han Webb, ATTORNEY OF the
a United States of America for the District of
fr this purpose, respectfully represents that the
United States aforesaid are desirous If purchasing
for he erection Of f.rt and battery sertin tract
the County of Cumberland, within the limits of the
State of Maine, particularly bounded and described
as folows: BEGINNING at copper bolt in a rock on
the southerly side of the road leading from the
ty road to he Portland Head Light House, said cop
pei bolt being about eleven hundred feet distant
from the county known the shore ro d. thence
southery at tight angles with said Light House
road hund ed and nineteen feet more less tn
wall is the southerly boundary of land now for
merly of Benjamin b. Dyer; thence easterli by said
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 sea shore at low water line;
thence westerl, such prolongalon of the so"thpr
y side line of the road to the Lgh. House to the first
boun S; said escribed parcel of Ian containing
about nine acres. That the sole owner of sal de-
scrbed tract If land is supposed to- be Benjamin
d. Dyer of Cape Elizabeth aforesaid, anil capable of
conveying the me to said United States. That the
said Benjamin B. Dyer, owner aforesaid OF said
tract of land, from disagreement in regrl to the
price of the same or from some other cause to this
applicant and to the sail United States unknown,
hath refused and still refuses toconvey said tract of
and to said Uni e States;
Wherefore, this applicant, in behalf OF said United
States respe, tfull prays your Honor order notice
of this application, conformable with the provisions
OF the Act of the Legislature of the State Maine
eutitled An act for the REIMBURSEMENT to the United
States in certain of title to lands for sites of
tight stations the coast and waters of the State,
approved Feb uary 49, 1871, as amended by act
titled "An Act TO amend Chapter six hundred and
forty-nne OF the private laws Of thousand eight
hun red and seventy-one, relating to lig houses"
approved February 20, 1872, to be published in some
newspaper in Portland nearest to where said tract
of an lies once in each week for the space of four
mon hs. which notice shall contain accurate de-
scr tion of said tract of land, together with the
name of the supposed owner, and sail require all
persons interested in said lnds to come forward
day to be specified in said notice and file their obec-
tons, If any they should have, to the proposed pur
ch; 50
And this applicant, in behalf of said United States
further prays that on the return day specific in
said notice : jury may be empanneed in the manner
provide by law to assess the val of said tract
ofland it's fair market value, and all damages
tanned 10y the owner of the lands appropriated by
reason of such appro ration, and that such other
and further proceedings may be had in pursuance of
the aforesaid 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
Maine.