The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-01-23
To She Honorable Charles w. Walton,
one of the yusticrs of the Supreme Ju-
dici0i COmrt of dlse NaRae Of Maine.

To She Honorable Charles w. Walton,
one of the Justicrs of the supreme Ju-
diciai Court of the State of Maine.
fElHE undersigned Nathan Webb, Attorney OF the
IL United States of America for the District Of
Maine, duly authorized agent of said United States
for this purpose, respectfully represents that the
for the erection of fort and battery certain tract
of land situated in the town of Cape Elizabeth, i'll
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
ty road to he Portland Head Light House, said cop
pei bolt being about eleven hundred feet distant
from the county ROAD known the shore 70 ID thence
southerly at tight angles with said Light House
road seven humid ed and nineteen feet less to
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-eight feet
to the sea shore thence northeasterly by the sea
shore to the point where the southerly 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 proongaton of the soather
ly 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 owner of said de-
scribed tract Of land supposed to be one Benjamin
B. Dyer, of Cape Elizabeth aforesaid, and capable OF
conveying the to said United States. That the
! said Benjamin B. Dyer, owner aforesaid of said
tract Of land, from disagreement in regard to the
price OF the same from some other cause to this
4 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 An act for the REIMBURSEMENT to the United
States in certain cases Of title to lands for sites o.
light stations the coast and waters of the State,
approved Feb uary Is, 1871 amended by an act
! titled can Act to amend Chapter six hundred and
forty-nine OF the private laws of oI thousandseigh
hun red and seventy-one, relatingto light houses,
approved February co. 1872, to be published in some
newspaper in Portland, nearest to where said trac
of land lies in each week for the space of foul
| mon his, which notice shall contain an accurate de-
scri, tion of said tract of land together with the
name of the supposed owner, and shall require al
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
chaae
And this applicant, in behalf of said United States
further prays, that on the return day specified IL
| said notice jury may be empanneledi in the manne
provide by law to assess the val Of said trac
ofland at it's fair market value, and all damages sus
tanned by the owner of the lands SO appropriated b.
reason of such appro ration, and that such othe
and further proceedings may be had in pursuance O
the aforesaid acts of the Legislature Of the State
Maine as may be requisite to convey to said Unite
States Of America good and absolute title 10 tn
above desc ibed tract of land against all person
Whatsoever; and so will ever pray.
Dated at Portland, in the County of Cumberland
the twenty day of October. A. ID 1872.
NATHAN WEBB,
Attorney of the United States for the District
| Maine