The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-01-22
MISCELLANEOUS.
"nn e son0rabie Charles w. Walton.
49,, % me .susiic Of tiie Supreme .gu,
i OOuff Of the Sinte of Ndninc.

me honorable Charles w, Walton.
Jic;,I me me .susiic Of the Supreme gu-
,T,, hi Court Of the State of sfaime.
NhE undersigned, Nathan Webb Attorney OF tle
~, United States of America for the District of
s siiae duly authorized agent of said United States
United pnairpose respectfully represents that the
Ear m states aforesaid are desrous of purchasing
Of omd e;tcuon OF fort and battery certain tract
the County SofeG os IN the town of Cape Elizabeth, in
ste 81 e, OF ane, particularly bounded and described
fe sortho, beSinnng at copper bolt in a rock on
tie so9thefiy SIDE OF the road eadng from tbe conn
ty road to he Portland Head I;oht IJn ,ni nid @
PEI poit peng about eleven hundred faet distappt
mon .ne county road known the shore road tbenne
southerly at right angles with said Iiht ioioo U,
road Seven hundred and nineteen feet mnrs n onse
copper bolt set in the line of stone wall ,Ti % !,
wall is the southery boundary of land no, %' m min f
merly of Benjamin b. Dyer; thence easter, III vi i oi
stone wall about four hundred and twenty eiXt ~ s fn
to the sea shore; thence northeasterly by fbe SEQ
shore to the point where the souheriy side linz of
the road trom county road to the Light House pro
longed would strike the shore at low water line
thence westerly on such prolongalon of the souther-
bounds; said described parcel of land containing
about nine acres. That the sole owner of said de.
scrbed tract of land is supposed to be one Beniamn
u. 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
pi1cc OF the same or from some other cause to this
applicant and to the said United States unknown,
land to said United States;
wherefore, this applicant, in behalf of said United
states respectfully prays your Honor to order notice
OF this application, confornabe with the provisions
OF the Act of the Legislature of the State of Maine
entitled IAN act for the REIMBURSEMENT to the United
States III certain of title to lands for SIZES Of
light stations on the coast and waters of the State
approved February 1S 1871 amended by an act en-
titled An Act to amend Chapter six hundred and
forty OF the private laws of one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-one, relating TO light houses
approved February 90 1872, to be published in some
in Portland, nearest to where said tract
OF land lies once 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 snail require all
persons interested in said lands to come forward on
day to be specified in said notice and file their obiec
tions, 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 6 jury may be empanneledin the manner
nov proyid by law to assess the value of said tract
fland at its fair market value, and all damages ss
taned by the owner of the lands so appropriated by
reason OF such appropriation, and that such. other
and further proceedings may be had in pursuance of
he 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
whatsoever; and SO will ever pray.
Dated at Portland in the County of Cumberland
he twenty ninth day of October. A d. 1872
NATHAN WEBB.
Attorney OF the United States for the District of
Maine.