Year: 1873




rIyHE undersigned, Nathan Webb, Attorney OF the
United States Of America for the District OF
Maine duly authorized agent OF said United States
Tinted States Aforesaid are desirous Of purchasing
for the erection of fort and battery certain tract
tbe County Of Cumberland, within the limits of the
State of Maine particularly bounded and described
as follows:-B 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 known sthe shore road thence
souther1y at right angles with said Light House
road seven hundred 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
mery of Benjamin B. Dyer; thence easterly by said
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 proongalon Of the souther
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 is supposed to be Benjamin
B. 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
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


Wherefore, this applicant, in behalf Of said United
States respectfully prays your Honor to order notice
of this application, conformabe with the provisions
of the Act of the Legislature of the State OF Maine
entitled "An act for erelinqushment to the United
States in certain of title lands for sites of
fight stations the coast and waters of the State
approved February Is, 1871, amended by act
titled s'An 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 20, 1872 to be published in some
newspaper in Portland nearest to where said tract
of land les 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 shall require all
persons interested in said lands to come forward
day to be specified in said notice and file their objec
tions if any they should have, to the proposed pur
chs Sc.


And thiSapplicant, in behalf of said United States,
further prays, that on the return day specified in
said notice jury may be empanneled in the manner
provide by law to the value of said tract
ofland at its fair market value and all damages
taned 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. 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. irsq


Dated at Portland, in the County of Cumberland,
the twenty-ninth day of October, A d. 1872.


~ --si7 NATHAN WEBB,
Attorney Of the United States for the District of


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