Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-12-31
NV the President of the United States.

~ Ph s Of july 1876 enie IAN act to authorize
he fTedent the United States
the and Arkansas and Territories Of Wisconsin
9Ts Of s to % Of LEAD hereby and
make known that ubc of the lands
the State of ILLINOIS ACCOUNT OF the raLuA
oaces in said state at periods designated tOwt
At Land Office DIXON commencing on Monday the fifth
following townships and fractional townships, viz
and east Of the fourth principal meridian
Fractional townships twentyseven tweneght and twenty
township and twenyeght fractional
ship 81 and aud
ship twenty.nine Of range three ,,-,.
The north township wenyseyen township twentyegh
ana % 1aas Ssse ise and as,
and range 1S s sso
day. the nineteenth day April for the disposal OF the public
Ssil Of The base as and east qtks bird principal erian
o to - iRS1siTe of toWnsSi eleven
FIRE inclusive and sections eight to rsr inclusive IN township
sections inclusive fifteen to tSss.sS in,
eleven sections one too of
section our ncusive the southwest quar-
fifteen sgGsen inclusive in township twelve. of range
nine.
Lands appropriated by for the Of schools military or
other viii be excluded from the sales also al
which shall be determined by the day fixed Tor the
Prempon claims will not be allowed any the above lands
until after the shall have been offered at the
mine or mines lead actually discovered and being worked
subdivision SUBDIVISIONS
mines less than two dollars ana ny Genus
The sales be kept spen for two weeks unles the nd
disposed off and longer and no private .vs
townships and fractional townships so offered VIII %
admitted until after the expiration OF two weeks from 'n Gum
mencement of said sales
In further execution have caused the Commits
General Land Office to publish with TINS
brief in which these iands lie
sale which he has prepared Iron
official and other OF information
Given under my hand at the City OF Washington tl egnn os
Of september Do%in thousand eight saResS daS
PrrrR .aefing Comssoner Of the Generdf Land oee
DIXON district embraced in the above proea
Owen the geoogist under instructions on
the Treasury Department and in compliance with
the House passed 9Th February le ne aOi
document 2S9 House
Representatives, first sion of 26h Congress SHOWS 'A
Lands all productive mines and the eute region
which observations during his survey there Is reason
that valuable veins Of readily De ouno
Illinois,
only produced upwards of thirty millions
leadthose Of Illinois yielding their full opoop n1 "a
district IL properly mined, would leo one huueu a."
fifty millions pounds per annum- ....,-: - Ter.
situated and the MISSISSIPPI ana
rivers the cost of Transporting the pfoducsof tn 20 81 LOUIS
only hundred pounds lie SOL is OF exec
the lands In the sHAWNEETowN district have been
pored as fully in Dixon Recent discovers nave pc
made rich of the ulphure OF iean ana zhc
truous to and lands indicating the exent
"a similar deposes The facilities for
white represented being ample and q ne
are situated within miles Of the OHIO river the meta
any transported to all the d
= trfing cost. JAN AM.e, = a. ~ ~ d.
: September eth, 1875. @ls~p