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For Sale Lease.
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NOTICE hereby gven that in virtue of the authority
vested in this office by the OF the 3D. March, 1913,
the improved lands in Ohio, ceded by the Wyanotts by
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Notice to Presumption Claimants.

NOtECe 9 Ffe-tmuti0H CIHIIhAHtA
Every person entitled TO the right of preempton any
lands within the townships and of townships above
enumerated required establish the to the salts
faction of the register receiver the proper land office
and make payment therefor practicable after
ing this notice. and before the day appointed for the
mencement the public sale of the lands embracing the
tract claimed, otherwise such claim will be forfeited
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Postponenaent of the Land Indians polIs
Indiana.
NOTICE hereby given, that the sales of the lands in
IN the MIAMI INDIANA ordered by procama-
ton Of the President ohe United States, dated the twenty
fifth day OF May, lS7 TO be held the land office Indi-
ana polls the xh day OF September 1917 at the land
Office Fort Wayne the 10Th September 1877 and al
the land office AT Winamac The 9th September 1885,!
declared be postponed until and to commence on
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Given under my hand, at the city of Washington ths
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BY order OF the President
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Commissioner of the General Land Office.
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