The Portland daily press., 1873-01-02
To the Honorable Charles w. WaI,.,.
one OF the Justic of tine Supreme H.
dlciaI Court of the STATE of ys.,ino US

FUNHE undersigned, Nathan Webb ATTORNEY of tho
Il United States of America tor the District IF
Name duly authorized agent OF said United States
United States aforesaid are DESTROYS If purchasing
for the erection of fort and battery cert lin 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 tollows:, Beginning at copper bolt in rock
the southery side of the road leading from the coun-
ty road to the Portland Head Light House. said COP
per bolt being about eleven hundred feet distant
from the county road known the shore road thence
southerly at right angles with said Light House
road seven hundred and nineteen feet more or less tn
ac0pper bolt set in the line of stone wall, which
wall is the southery boundary of land now or for
mery of Benjamin b. DYER thence easterlj by said
stone wall about four hundred and twenty-eght feet
to the sea shore; thence northeastern by the sea
shore to the point where the southery side linz of
the road from county road to the Light House pro-
longed would strike the sea shore at low water lne
thence westerly such prolOngatlon of the souther
y 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-
ser6ed tract of land is supposed to be Benjamin
-. Dyer Of Cape Elizabeth aforesaid, and capable of
sodTeSg the same to said United States That the
ftact Of lam b. Dyer owner as aforesaid OF said
49, % iaiu, from disagreement in regard to the
price OF the same, or from some other cause to this
apRlcant and to the said United States unknown,
land to said refuses to convey said tract of
Wherefore, this applicant, behalf of said Tinted
of this application conormabe with ~ oruer notlce
of the Act Of the Legislature of the State Of %
entitled San act for the REIMBURSEMENT to ba ITn;
States in certain Of title to lands for s;iaS 20
light stations the coast and waters of the Stats -
approved February Is, 1871, amended by an act en-
titled San Act to amend Chapter six hundred and
fortynine of the private laws of thousand eight
hundred and seventy-one relating to light houses''
approved February co. 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-
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
tons, 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 in
SAID notice jury may be empannelled in the manner
now provide by law to the val 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 appro ration, and that such other
and further proceedings may be had in pursuance of
Aforesaid acts of the Legislature of the State of
Maine as 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
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.