The Portland daily press., 1873-02-27
Rooms to Let.
STORE TO LET.
To the Honorable Charles w. Walton,
one of the Justices Of the Supreme Ju-
dicial Court Of the State Of Maine.

To the Honorable Charles w. Walton,
Sicini Court Of the State of mainc.
rTyHE undersigned, Nathan Webb, Attorney OF the
IL United States Of America for the District Of
Maine, duly authorized agent Of said United States
fer this purpose respectfully represents that the
United States aforesaid are desirous 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 the
State of Maine particularly bounded and described
as follows BEGINNING at copper bolt in rock on
the southerly side of the road leading from the coun
ty road to he Portland Head Light House, said cop
pei bolt being about eleven hundred feet distant
from the county road known as the shore rod thence
southerly at right angles with said Light House
a copper bolt set in the line of stone wall, which
wall is the southerly boundary OF land now or for
merly of BENJAMIN B. Dyer; thence easterly BY said
stone wall about four hundred and twenty-eight feet
to the sea shore; thence northeasterly by the sea
shore the point where the southerly side line of
the road from county road to the Light House pro-
onged would strike the sea shore at low water line;
thence westerly such prolongaton of the souther
y side line of the road the Light House to the first
about nine acres. That the sole owner of said de-
scribed tract of land supposed to be one Benjamin
D. 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
hath refused and still refuses to convey said tract of
and to said United States:
Wherefore, this applicant, IN Denaf OF Sald Onlleu
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 An act for the REIMBURSEMENT to the United
States in certain Of title to lands for siteS Of
light stations the coast and waters of the State.
approved February 49, 1871 az amended by an act en-
titled can Act to amend Chapter six hundred and
fortynine OF the private laws Of one thousand eight
hundred and seyentyone, relating to light houses"
approved February 20 1872 to be published in some
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 come forward on
day to be specified in said notice and file their objec
tions, any they should have, to the proposed pur-
cb; re.
And this applicant in behalf of said United States,
further prays, that ON the return day specified in
said notice jury may be empannelled in the manner
provide by law to assess the vae of said tract
of land at its fair market value and all damages sus
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, 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
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