Year: 1873

| one of the Jusficrs of the Supreme Ju.


dicial Court of the State OF Maine.
TIyHE undersigned, Maj han Webb, Attorney OF the
| IL United States of America Tor the District Of
Maine duly lhorized agent Of said United States
| FIR this purpose respectfully represents that the
United States aforesaid are desirous Of purchasing
for the erection of fort and battery certain tract
the County Of Cumberland within Ike limits Of the
State of Maine, particularly bounded aud described
as follows: BEGINNING at copper bolt in rock on
ty road to he Portland Head Light House said COP
pei bolt being about eleven hundred feet distant
from the county road knownas the shore thence
southerly at right angles with said Light House
road seven hundred and nineteen feet more or less to
copper bolt set in the line of stone wall which
wall Is the southerly boundary of land for
merly of Benjamin B. Dyer; thence easterly by said
stone wall about four hundred and twenty feet
to the sea shore; thence northeasterly by the sea
shore to the point where the southery side line of
the road from county road to the Light House pro-
longed would strike the sea shore at low water line;
thence westerly such prolongatlon of the souther


y side line of the road to the Light House to the first
| bounds; said described parcef of land containing
| about nine acres That the sole owner of said de-
scrbed tract of land is supposed to be one Benjamin
b. Dyer Of Cape Elizabeth aforesaid, and capable of
conveying tile same to said United States. That the
tract of land, from disagreement in regard to the
price of the same, or from other cause to this
applicant and to the said United States unknown,
hath refused and still refuses to convey said tract of
and to said United States:


Wherefore, thisnpplcant, in behalf OF said United
Of this application conformabe~ with the provisions
of the Act of the Legislature Of the State of Maine
entitled "An act for relinqusbment to the United
States in certain of title to lands for sites of
light stations on the coast and waters of the State'
approved February 49, 1871 amended by act en-
titled can 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 20, 1872 to be published in some
newspaper 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-
scriptioD of said tract of land together with the
name of the supposed owner, and shall require all
persons interested in said lands come forward on
day to be specified in said notice and file their objec-
tons, if any they should have to the proposed pur-
ch; sc.


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 value of said tract
of land at its fair market yalue and all damages sus-
tainod by the owner Of the lands appropriated by
reason Of such appropriation and that such other
and further proceedings may be had in pursuance of
the 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,
the twenty ninth day of October. A. d. 1872.


NATHAN WEBB,
Attorney Of the United States for the District of


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