The Portland daily press., 1873-03-24
observation-disclosures
me hon9rable Charles w, wa,,.n
.I:c;oI E" o "stc Of the Supreme In,

fINHE undersigned, MAI han Webb. A,tor,a'.
United States of America the District II, 'h nf
Name duly authorized agent of said United States
Lr TINS purpose, respectfully represents tbot az
United States aforesaid are DESTROYS Of PURCHASING
Tor the erection of fort and battery certain tract
OF land situated in the town of Cape Elizabeth i'm
the County of Cumberland, within the limits of the
state OF Maine, particularly bounded and described
as ~ ,onows:, BEGINNING at copper bolt in rock
" road to he Portland Head Light House, said cop
pei bolt being about eleven hundred feet distant
ene county ROAD known as the shore no ID, thence
sousneriy at light angles with said Light House
road seven humid ed and nineteen feet more or less
"copper" bolt set in the line of stone wall, which
wall is the southerly boundary of land now or for
merry OF Benjamin b. Dyer; thence easteri; by said
STONE wall about four hundred and twenty-eiyHt feet
Ir rne sea shore thence northeasterly by the sea
th oe 70 she point where the southery side line of
Ine road from county road to the Light House pro-
1bngeu would strike the shore at low water line;
;S Mes'erIS on such prolongatlon of the sonther-
~ sue line OF the road the Light House to the first
Doun is; said described parcel of Ianj contaninS
;hd t tn, acres That the sole owner of said de-
u. Dyer, of Cape Elizabeth aforesaid and conctI ~
conveying CON nme me to said United States That the
tract OF land, from disagreement in re9ard - th
price OF tue same, or from some other cause to tLs
applicant and to the said United States ,,nt0o Wis
hath refused and still refuses to convey said ,ra@
and to said Uni ell States: "0' Vi
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 OF Maine
An TO the United
States in certain of title to lands for sites of
ight stations the coast and waters of the State
approved Febi uary Is, 1871 amended by act
titled can Act TO amend Chapter six hundred and
ory-nine OF the private laws Of one thousand eight
hun Ired and seventy-one, relating to Zig houses
approved February 20, 1877, to be published in some
newspaper in Portland nearest to where said tract
of land lies in each week for the space of four
mon his, which notice shall contain an accurate de-
scri ton of said tract of land, together with the
name of the supposed owner, and saall require all
persons interested in said lands to come forward on
day to be specified in said notice and file their objec-
tons, any they should have, to the proposed pur-
ch; Sc.
And this applicant, in behalf of said United States
further prays that on the return day specific in
said notice jury may be empanneled in the manner
provd, by law to assess the val of said tract
of land its fair market value, and all damages sus-
tanned by the 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 acts of the Legislature of the State of
Maine 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.
Dated at Portland, in the County of Cumberland,
the twenty-nnth day of October. A. D. 1872.
NATHAN WEBB,
Attorney Of the United States for the District of
Maine