The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-01-10
TO the Honorable Charles w. Walton,
cne OF the Justic Of the Supreme Ju-
"scAni Court of the Slat4. of Same.

'hE r Undersigned, Ma han Webb A,torne OF the
M; u gu gu States of Anne lea the District Of
this purpose, resuecti1Ilv Yanrss.nts flo, fLe
Uni ed States AZORES id are desirous purchasing
of land situated in the town of CAM EI;ah = ~
the County OF Cumberland within III. limits Of The
STATE OF Main r!icularly bounded and described
as 70 lows: BEGINNING at Upper bolt in rscl on
the southerly side of the road eang from he , On
ty road to the Portland Head Light House said c
per bolt being about eleven hundred feet di.toppt
from the county ROAD known as the shore no d tbenca
southerly at light angles with said Light Honse
road hnnd ed and nj eteen feet more or less t.
a copper bolt set in the line OF stone wall which
wall is the southerly boundary of land now or for
merlS of Benjamin B. Dyer; thence easterl, by said
stone II about four hundred and t~enty-eisht feet
to the sea shore; thence nOrtheasterly by tie sea
shore 10 the point where the southery side lin of
the road from county road to the Light House pro-
longed would strike the shore at low water line;
thence western ON such lon of the sout err
y side line of the road to the Lgh House to the first
b0un s.; said escribed parcel of Ian Containing
about nine acres. That tie sole owner of sal de-
scribed tract land is supposed TO be Benjamin
u. Dyer OF Cape Elizabeth aforesaid, AMI capable of
conveying the me TO sail Unit States. Th the
said b tnjamin B. Dyer, owner as afOresai. said
tract of land, from disagreement in rgiri to the
price of the same, or from me other cause to this
applicant and to the sail United States unknown,
hath refused and still refuses TO convey said tract of
land to said Uni Ell States:
wherefore this applicant, in behalf OF said Unied
States respe tfu prays your Honor TO order notice
of this application, conformable with the provisions
of the Act of the Legislature of the state Of Maine
emitted An act Tor Jhe reln4 usIment 10 the united
States in certain OF title to lands for sites of
Ii ght stations the coast and waters of the State
approved Feb uary Is, 1871, amended by act
It'll ID San Act TO ameud Chapter six buntlred and
f,ry-nine OF the private laws of thousand eight
hun tred and seventy-one, relating 10 Zig houses,
approved February 20, 1877, to be published in
newspaper in Portl ud nearest to where said tract
of Ian lies in each week for the space of four
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 all require all
persons interested in said nds 10 come fo ward
day be specified in said notice and lille their objec-
tons, if 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
said notice jury may be empanneledn the manner
now provided by law assess che val Of said tract
land its fir market value, and all damages
tanned ny the owner of the lands appropriated By
N of such appro ration, and that such other
and further proceedings may be had in pursuance of
the aforesaid acts of the Legislature of the State of
Maine may be requisite to convey TO said United
S, aies Of America a good and absolute title TO the
above desc ibed tract of land against all persons
Whatsoever; and so will ever pray.
Dated at Portland, in the 'unly of Cumberland,
the twenty-nineh day of October A. 1872.
NATHAN WEBB,
Attorney of the United States for the District of
Maine.