The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-06-18
By the President of the United Stat,


BY the President of the United Slate,.
|VTTHEREAs, by the act Of Congress, app,O,.,
wv on the third day of March, isi3, enu,lsS
|'An act providing for the sale Of certain lands
the States of Ohio and Michigan, ceded by the W..
andot tribe of Indians and for other purposes K.
president is authorized to cause the lands IN a.
States Of Ohio and Michigan 'to which the IpdiaS
futile was extiDguished by a treaty with the Wv.r
IDIOT tribe of Indians, concluded at Upper Sanduskv
March seventeenth, eighteen hundred and fory'
ltwo," to be offered at public sale, under the sun,
ntendence of the respective registers and receiver
Iof the land offices at Upper Sandusky and Detroit.
Now know ye, that ], JAMES X. Polk, Presideu,
Gof the United States, do hereby declare and mai.
known that public sales will be held at the unds,
mentioned land Offices, in the States Of Ohio ana
Michigan, at the periods hereinafter designated G
the disposal of the public lands hereinafter NAMED
the Indian title to which was extinguished bv ssl
treaty, upon the terms and conditions prescribed !
THE act of Congress aforesaid to wit:
At the land Office at UPPER SANDUSKY. in
1.-THE State of Ohio, commencing ON MONDAY. n,
twenty -second day of September next for The dis
|posal of the public lands within the limits Of ibs
aforementioned township and fractional townships
|vz:
South Of the base line and east Of the first PRINCIPAL ma
ridian.
Fractional townships one, two, and three, Of
range thirteen.
Fractional townships one and three, and township
two, of range fourteen.
Fractional townships one, two, and three, of
range fifteen, with the exception Of the following
tracts, viz: the section part of section numbered
sixteen in every township, which shall remain for
THE support of common schools; the tract in town.
ship two of range fourteen, which includes the town
of Upper Sandusky, laid off by the surveyor gener.
al into town lots, out lots, streets, and avenues and
the tract of two acres of land in section tweny-nne
in township two, of range fourteen, including ,he
''stone meeting house and burying ground near 10
and north of, Upper Sandusky;" and the tract Of
one half acre in the southeast quarter Of section
eight, in township three, of range fourteen desie.
mated as the Graveyard Reserve" on the farm Of
Silas Armstrong.
Also, at the same time and place, for the disposal
of the town lots and out-ots Of the town of Upper
in township two south, Of range fourteen
east, the left bank, descending of the Sandusky
river excepting four town lots to be selected by the
register and receiver before the day Of sale "or the
of, and to be vested in, the town, when shall
become corporae;n excepting also the town lots and
out-lots vested in the county commissioners of the
county of Wyandot, by the provisions Of the act Of
Congress approved February 26, 1885, and also
excepting the lot designated as the ''grave.yardn
one acre, near the counciLhouse, within
the town.
The minimum price Of the town lots is fixed by
the law al tWentysuOarS per tof, anu OF the 0ut-0s
at the rate of fifteen dollars per acre.
At the land Office at DETROIT, in the State Of
commencing on Monday, the sirih
day of October next, for the disposal of the public
lands within the limits of the undennentioned sec
tons, viz:
South Of the base line east Of the meridian, and on both
sides of the Huron river.
Sections twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five,
twenty-six, twenty-seven, thirty-four thirty-fve,
and thirty-six and the fraction of section twenty
two, containing eight acres, on the south side Of
Huron river; all in township four, Of range nine.
The sales will each be kept open for two weeks,
and no longer, (uness the lands disposed
Off and private entries of land in the townships
offered will be admitted, until after the expiration
Of the two weeks.
The minimum price, at public and private sale, Of
the lands designated in this proclamation, lying with
in the limits of Ohio, is fixed at t,ro dollars and y
cents per acre; and of those within the limits Of
the minimum price is tico dollars peracre
When a trsct on which improvements are situa-
led shall be offered, if the appraised value Of the i'm.
provements be not hidden in addition to the mini.
mum price of the land above stated such tract shall
be Withdrawn from sale, and shall again be Offered
subsequent public SALE due public notice thereof
sfrst being given, when directed by the Commis.
sioner of the General Land Office"
Given under my hand, at the city of Washington,
The sixteenth day of June, ammo Domin one thou
sand eight hundred and fory-fve.
By the President:
JAS. SHIELDS,
Commissioner Of the General Land Office
June lS--Iawtf