The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-01-11
a.. "s aonerabie Charles w. Walton,
dicini me 1ust'c Of the Supreme Ju-
-". NOort Of the Staft 0f Uuune.

dieiat Court OF she stasr ef '9,.snc.
Ji" eS Ma han Webb, A,torne OF the
Maine ,lniv an Ss,s o. America the District Of
Il this PURPOSE, respectfully renrss he, ,hs
Uni ed States azores i'd DESTROYS nrch..;ns
of llnl situated in the town Of Cane Ei.h = a.
the County Of Cumberland, within tn lmS, ~ IN
STATE Of Main piricularly bounded and described
as TO lows: he Inning at Upper bolt In rock On
the southerly side of the road leaing frem The conn.,
ty road to the Portland Head Light House. said con-
per bolt being about eleven hundred feet Distant
from the county road known the shore no d tbencs
southery at light angles with said. Light Houae
TOAD seven hund ed and nineteen eet more or less l.,
a 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 IL about .ur hundred and enty-e hi feet
to the sea shore; thence n)rt easterly by tie sea
shore 20 the point where the southerly side lin Of
the road from county road to the Light House pro-
thence weserl, such pr 5longaion of the sat or.
y sie line Of the road to the Llgh Ho Use to the first
beun IS; said escri5ed parcel of Ian containing
about nine acres. Thai tire sole owner of sal de-
scribed tract land is supposed TO be one Benjami
n.-Dyer, Of Cape Elizabeth aforesaid AMI capable Of
conveying the me TO said Unit States nh 4 III,
said MANN B. Dyer, owner as aforesai 4 o, said
tact OF land, from disagreement in regar to the
price OF tle same or from me otter cause to this
hath refused anil still. ref Uses convey said tract OF
lanl tn said Uni States:
wherefore, this applicant in behalf Of sail uni ed
States respe tfuil prays your Honor TO order notice
OF this application, confnrmable with the provisions
OF the ACT Of the Legislature Of the state Of Maine
entitled IAN act for the accomplishment to the United
States in certain OF title lands for 81 es of
light stations the and waters of the State"
approved Feb uary 49, 1871 amended by an act en-
it'd ii "An Acc 10 amend Chapter six hundred and
frty-nne OF the private laws of thousand eight
hun red and seventy-one, relating to Zig houses,
approved February 90 1877, to be published In some
newspaper in Portland, nearest TO where said tract
of lanl lies once in each week for the SPACE Of four
non hs which )tice shall contain an accurate de-
sc zion of said tract of land, toge. her with the
name of the supposed owner, anil all require all
persons interested in said nds 10 come IN, ward on
day to be specified in sail notice and nle their obee-
ions, II any they should have, to The proposed pur
chase.
And this applicant, in behalf Of sail United States
further prays, that on The return day specific In
sail notice jury may be empSnneled in the manner
now provid, BY Jaw to the val Of said
OF And at its fir market value, and all damages
tanned by the owner Of the lands Appropriated by
reason Of such appro ration and that such lher
and further proceedings may be had in pursuance of
the aforesaid of the Legisaturaof the State Of
Maine as may be requisite to convey to said United
Ssates OF Ameriea good and absolute title 10 the
above desc bed traeI OF land against all pei sons
whatsoever; and so will ever pray.
Dated at Portland in the County of Cumberland,
the twenty-ninth day of October. A. ID 1872.
NATHAN WEBB,
Attorney of the United States for the District of
Maine.