The Portland daily press., 1873-03-21
STORE TO LET.
To the Honorable Charles w. Walton,
one of the Justicrs Of the Supreme Ju.
dicial COurf of the Slafe 0f NIaine

To the Honorable Charles w. Walton.
dicial Court of the State of Maine
TIHE undersigned, Naiha Webb, Attorney OF the
Il United States Of America tor the District Of
Maine, duly authorized agent of said United States
Unied States Aforesaid are DESTROYS 4 purchasing @
for the erection of frt and battery certain tract
Of land situated in the town of Cape Elizabeth, in
State of Maine, particularly bounded and described
as fo,lows. BEGINNING at copper bolt in rock on
the Gthery \. Gf the the
pei bolt being about eleven hundred feet distant
from the county roan known the shore d. thence
southerly at right angles with said Light House
road hnnd ed and nineteen feet more or less
copper bolt set in the line of stone wall, which
wall is the sontherly boundary of land nowor for
stone wall about four hundred and twenty-eight feet
to the sea shore; thence northeasterly by the sea
shore to the point where the s0uthery side line Of
the road from county road to the Light House pro-
onged would strike the shore at low water line
thence westerly on such prolongaon of the sonther
y side line of the road to the Light House to the first
boun Is; said described parcel of Ian containing
about nine acres. That the sole owner of sal de-
scribed tract Of land is supposed to be one Benjamin
b. Dyer, of Cape Elizabeth aforesaid, and capable of
conveying the .me to said United States. That the
said Benjamin B. Dyer, owner as aforesaid of said
price of the same or from some other cause to this
applicant and to the said United States unknown,
hath refused and still refuses to convey said tract Of
and to said Uni cd States;
wherefore, this applicant, in behalf OF said United
States respectful, prays your Honor order notice
of this application, conformabe with the provisions
of the Act of the Legislature of the State OF Maine
entitled "An act for REIMBURSEMENT to the United
States in certain of title lands for sites of
light stations the coast and waters of the State"
approved Feb uary 49, 1871, amended by act en-
titled "An Act to amend Chapter six hundred and
forty-nine OF the private laws Of thousand eight
hun red and seventyone, 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 an accurate de-
scr tion of said tract of land, together with the
name of the supposed owner, and snail require all
persons interested in said lands to forward on
day to be specified in said notice and file their objec
tions if any they should have, to the proposed pur
cb; Sc.
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
provd, by law to the val of said tract
ofland its fair market value, and all damages
tanned by 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 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.