The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-10-06
BY the President of the United States.

N pursuance Of an act Of Congress, approved on
Il the eleventh day of July, 1886 entitled IAN ac
to authorize the President Of the United States "a
sell the reserved mineral lands in the States of Hi
nols, and Arkansas, and Territories of Wisconsin
and Iowa, supposed to contain lead ore, |, JAMES
X. POLK, President Of the United States Of meri-
ca, do hereby declare and make known, that public
sales of the lands heretofore withheld from sale or
account OF the valuable lead mines therein will be
held at the aforementioned land Offices in the State
OF ARKANSAS, at the periods hereinafter desg-
mated, to wit:
At the land office at BATESvILLE, commencing
on MONDAY the fifteenth day of March next, fol
the dIspo al of the public lands within the under.
mentioned townships, viz:
North Of the base line and ,gest Of The fifth principal
meridian.
Township nineteen, of range sixteen.
Townships nineteen and twenty, of range seven
teen.
AT the land office at FAYETTEVILLE, COM
mencing 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 ,oesf Of the lh principal
meridian.
Townships nineteen and twenty, of range 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, (if any, J
covered IN whole or In part by those mining leases
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 will include such mine or mines, at
not less than two dollars and fifty cents per acre.
The sales will each be kept open for two weeks,
unless the lands sooner disposed of and m In
ger; and no private entries of land in the townships
so offered, will be admitted until after the expra-
ION Of two weeks from the commencement of said
sales
In further execution of the said act, have caused
the Commissioner of the General Land Office to pub
llsh with this proclamation brief description Of the
mineral regions IN which these lands lie, and of the
lands now offered for sale, which he has prepared
from official documents and other means of nforma-
ton.
Given under my hand, at the city of Washing
ton, this eighth day of September ammo Domini one
eight hundred and forty-six.
JAMES X. POLK.
BY the President:
JAMES H. PIPER,
Acting Commissioner of the General Land Office
The mineral lands embraced in the above procla-
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 w hte river which
being navIgable and tributary of the Mississippi,
affords easy and cheap transportation to all the prin-
cipal 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-
plored; they have, however, been represented as
Astounding IN lead ore, of an excellent quality.
JAMES III. PIPER,
Acting Commissioners of the General Land Office
Sept. 8--1awts