The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-01-01
MISCELLANEOUS.
TO the Honorable Charles w. Walton,
Jic;.i court of the State of Maine.

cs.rs NfsklU
tF,HE undersigned MAJ han Webb, Attorney OF the
Maine. duly authorized agent of said United States
FIR this purpose, respectfully represents that the
Aforesaid are DESTROYS Of purchasing
1oi nc erection OF fort and battery certain tract
OF land situated in the town of Cape Elizabeth in
sne county OF Cumberland, within the limits of the
state OF Maine particularly bounded and described
as follows: Beginning at a copper bolt in a rock on
the southerly side of the road leading from the
W road to the Portland Head Light House. said cop
per bolt being about eleven hundred feet distant
from the county road known the shore 3D. thence
southerly at tight angles with said Light House
road seven hnnd ed and nineteen feet less to
copper bolt set i'll the line of stone wall, which
wall is the southerly boundary of land now for
merlS of Benjamin B. Dyer; thence easterly by said
stone II about four hundred and twenty-eyh hit feet
to the sea shore thence northeasterly by The sea
shore to the point where the southery side line of
the road from county road to the Light House pro-
onged would strike the shore at low line
thence westerly such proongaion of the souther-
y side line of the road to the Light House the first
bounds; said described parcel of land containing
about nine acres. That the sole owner of said de-
scribed tract # land is supposed TO be Benjamin
B. Dyer, of Cape Elizabeth aforesaid, and capable of
conveying the same to said United States That the
said Benjamin B. Dyer, owner aforesaid Of sliu
tract of land from disagreement in regard 10 ~.
price of the same or from some other s'nS nknown
applicant and to the said United States y: M
hath refused and still refuses to convey ~ o' VI
| land to said Uni ed States mp .,r
cttns FIJI Your Honor to order notice
of this application with the provisions
Of Of the Oh Une state OF Maine
t;ti5 9. act for the REIMBURSEMENT to the United
S4ts in eertain of title to lands for sites 81
l;ht Sections on the coast and waters of the State
aroved FEBRUARY Is, 1871, as amended by an Act en-
| ePpiad IAN Act to amend Chapter six hundred and
orty-nne Of the private laws Of one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-one, relating to light houses.
approved February 90 1872 to be published in some
newspaper in Portland, nearest to where said trac
of land lies once in each week for the space of fou
months, which notice shall contain an accurate de.
scrlptlon OF said tract of land, together with the
name OF the supposed owner, and shall require al
persons interested in said lands to come forward on
day to be specified in said notice and file their obec
IONS, 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 il
said noticeT jury may be empannelled in the manner
now provide by law to assess the val of said trac
ofland at it's fair market value and all damages sus
tanned by the of the lands SO appropriated b,
reason of such approl ration, and that such othe
and further proceedings may be had in pursuance O
the aforesaid acts of the Legislature of the State
Maine may be requisite to convey to said United
States of America good and absolute title 10 tn,
above described tract of land against all pei SON
| 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 o
| Maine,