The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-09-22
BY the President of the United States.

In pursuance Of an act Of Congress, approved on
Il the eleventh day Of July, 1916, entitled "An act
to authorize the President Of the United States to
sell the reserved mineral lands in the States Of Hi
nos, and Arkansas, and Territories Of Wisconsin
and Iowa, supposed to contain lead ORE" /, JAMES
X. POLK, President Of the United States Of Ameri-
ca, do hereby declare and make known, that public
sales Of the lands heretofore withheld from sale on
account Of the valuable lead mines therein, will be
held at the aforementioned land offices in the State
of ARKANSAS, at the periods hereinafter desig-
mated, to witt
AT 1.-THE land office at BATESVILLE, commencing
on MONDAY the fifteenth day of March next, for
the disposal of the public lands within the under
mentioned townships, viz
North Of the base line and rUest Of The Glh principal
meridian
Township nineteen, of range sixteen.
Townships nineteen and twenty, Of range seven
zen. .--.
menciDg on MONDAY, the ,twenty-second day of
March next, for the disposal of the public lands
within the aforementioned townships, TO wit:
North Of The base line and pest Of the fifth principal
meridian.
Townships nineteen and twenty, ofrange eigh-
teen.
Lands appropriated by law for the use of schools,
military, or other purposes, will be excluded from
sale; also, all quarter quarter sections, Gf any,
which shall not be determined by the day fixed for
the commencement Of these sales
Presumption claims will not be allowed to any of
the above lands until after the same shall have been
offered at public sale, and become subject to private
entry and all Of said lands which contain mine or
mines Of lead ore, actually discovered and being
worked, will be sold in such legal subdivision or
subdivisions, as will include such mine or mines,
not less than two dollars and fifty cents per acre.
The sales will each be kept open for two weeks,
(unless the lands disposed of) and lon
ger; and private entries of land in the townships
offered, will be admitted until after the expira-
ion Of two weeks from the commencement Of said
ales. '. ""
In further execution of the said act have caused
the Commissioner of the General Land Office to pub
sh with this proclamation brief description Of the
mineral regions in which these lands lie, and of the
lands offered for sale, which he has prepared
from official documents and other means of inforna-
ton.
Given under my hand, at the city of Washing
ton, this eighth day of September, ammo Domini one
thousand eight hundred and forty-six.
JAMES X. POLK.
BY the President
JAMES II. PIPER,
Acting Commissioner of the General Land Office
The mineral lands embraced in the above proca-
nation of the President of the United States, are
situated in Marion and Carroll counties, in the
northern part Of the State of Arkansas, within eight
or nine miles of the west bank of White river which
being navigabe and a tributary of the Mississippi
affords easy and cheap transportation to all the prin-
cipa markets Of the United States. As the mineral
qualities of these lands have but recently been dis
covered, they have not yet been thoroughly ex-
plorcd; they have, however, been represented as
Astounding IN lead ore, of an excellent quality.
JAMES Ii, PIPER,
Acting Commissioner of the General Land Office
Sept. 8--lawts