The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-01-27
To the Honorable Charles w. Walton,
one of the j ustic of the Supreme Ju-
diciaI Court of the St0te of OIaiun

To the Honorable Charles w. Walton,
one Of the JussiG Of the Supreme Jul
diciai Court of the State of Maine.
VNHE undersigned, Nathan Webb, Attorney of the
Il United States of America for the District of
Maine. duly authorized agent of said United States
f9T ss paeposs sesPScuy that the
for the erection of fort and battery certain tract
Of land situated in the town of Cape Elizabeth, in
State of Maine, particularly bounded and described
the sogthery side Of the road leading from the coun-
ty road to he Portland Head Light House. said con-
pei bolt being about eleven hundred feet distant
from the county road known the shore rod 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
stone wall about four hundred and twenty feet
to the shore; thence northeasterly by<fhe sea
shore to the point where the southery 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 prolongaton of the souther
y side line of the road to the Light House to the first
bounds; said described parcel of land containing
about nine acres. That the sole 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 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, conformable with the provisions
of the Act of the Legislature of the State of Maine
entitled San act for the REIMBURSEMENT to the United
States in certain of lands for sites of
light stations the coast and waters of the State
approved February Is, 1871, amended by act
titled San Act to amend Chapter six hundred and
OF the private laws Of thousand eight
hundred and seventy-one relating to light houses,
approved February 20, 1872, to be published in
newspaper in Portland, nearest to where said tract
of land lies in each week for the space of four
months which notice shall contain accurate de-
scription of said tract of land together with the
name of the supposed owner and shall require all
persons interested in said lands to forward
day to be specified in said notice and file their obec-
tons, 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 in
said notice jury may be empanneled in the manner
now provide by law to assess the value of said tract
ofland at its fair market value and all damages
tanned by the owner 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.
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,