Southern shield., 1851-06-28
By the President of the United States.

N pursuance Ol ldWs Is NIII4A1AD IIIl- E MORE, President of the United States of America, do hereby declare and make known, tl3, public sales will be held the uudermentoned Land Offices in the State of MISS CURL al the period here matter designated, to Wit;
 At the Land Office at JACKSON, commencing on Monday the first day of September next for the di5po- sal of the public lands situated within the following named townships, VIZ;
 Norh of the base iiyae and Hest Qf tts fth
 principal Meridian.
 Townships twenty seven, twenty-eight and twenty nine, on and near Current river, of range three. Townships twenty-seven twenty-eight and twenty nine, on and near Current river, of range four.
 Township twenty-eight, on branch of Current river, of range five. Townships twenty-three twenty-four, twenty eight and twenty nine of range eight. Townships tWenty-three, tWenty-Our, twenty eight and twenty-nine of range nine. Fractional townships twenty-one, and townships twenty two, twentythree twenty four, twenty and tWenty-slX, of range ten. At the SAME PLACE, commencing Monday the fifteenth day of September next for the disposal of the public lands within the following named townships and rarte a4 v-no4,i2o, viz. North 0f the base line a1d East 0f the ffb
 principal Meridian. Township twenty two, of range two.
 Fractional townships twenty-one and twcnty-two and township twenty-five of range three
 Township twenty-five, of range four.
 Townships twenty-two and twenty three, of range five
 Fractional township sixteen, and townships twenty two tWenty-three, twenty-iour, twenty-five, twenty SIX and twenty-seven, of range six.
 Fractional towns hips sixteen and seventeen and township tWenty-two, of range seven
 Fractional townships sixteen seventeen eg hteen ani twenty-one, townships twenty-two and twenty -three and sections three to ten inclusive twenty one inclusive, and tweny-nine to thrty-two inclusive m township twenty six of range eight.
 Township nineteen (eXcept fractional sections thirty one to hry-slX ncuslve) fractional township twenty and fractional township twentyone (except sections one twelve, thirteen, twenty-three, twenyfour twenty-five twenty-slX tWenty-seyen, thrty-four thrty-fve and thirtysix, of range nine.
 The northwest fraction of section six in township nineteen, and fractional township twenty, of range
 Sections one to twelve inclusive the north half of thirteen, fourteen to twenty-one inclusive and twenty eght to thrty-three inclusive, in township eighteen sections three inclusive in township nineteen; and sections hreen, fourteen the south half of twentytwo tWenty-thr to tWenty-seven and thrtyfour thirty SIX inclusive, In township twenty, of range twelve
 Ihepart east of little River Overflow, oftownship twenty three, of range thirteen.
 Section six (except the northeast uuarer0 and tons seven, elghteen nineteen, thirty and thrtyone, east ot Little River Overflow" in township twenty four, of range fourteen.
 At the Land Office at SPRINGFIELD commencing on Monday the eighteenth day of August next for the disposal of the public lands situated within the follow mg named fractional townships, to wit; North 0t the base Hne aud Fest of he jim
 principal Meridian.
 Township twenty-two, of range twenty-two.
 Township tWenty-two, of range twenty three
 Fractions of sections twenty-five thirly-one thirty tWo thrtythree, thirty -four, thirtyfye and thryslS south of the Old State Line in township twentyoneo of range tWentyeight
 Fractional township twentyone adiacant to the State Line, ot ranges tWenty-seven, twenty-nlne thrIh thirty thrty-two, thirty-three and thiry-four
 Lands appropriated by law for the use of schools, military and other purposes, together With th0Se swamp and overfowed lands made unfit thereby tor culvaton If any, which shall be selected by the StaS authorities before the days appointed for the com meneement ot the public sales respectively, under the Act entitled An act to enable the State of Arkansas ana other States to reclaim the swamp lands within ther limits, approved September 25th l850 WILL BE EXCLUDED FROM THE SALES And no locations for lana bounes heretofore granted by any law of Congress tor military services rendered to the United States, WILL BE PERMITTED ON ANY OF THE ABOVE MENTIONED LANDS as provided by the act entitled "An act making uppro pratons for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Gov ernment," ," &c, approved Sd March, 1851. ,n,. The offering of the above mentioned lands will oe commenced on the days appointed aLd will proceed III the order Tn which they advertised with all conveI lent dispatch, until the whole shall have been Otered and the sales thus cosed but no se shall be kept o longer than two weeks and private entry of any ot the lands will be admitted until after the expiration two weeks
 Given under my hand at the City of Washington, this sixth day of May Anno Domin one thousand eight hundred and ffty-one. WILLARD FILLMORE. By the President;
 J. BUTTERFIELD,
 Commissioner of the General Land OH'e' NOTICE TO PRE,EMPTION CLAIMANTS
 Every person entitled to the right of pre-empuon | any of the lands within the townships and parts J' townships above enumerated, is required to eSaolsn the same to the satisfaction of the register and recel ofthe proper land office and make payment therefor AZ SOON AS PRACTICABLE AFTER SEElNo THIS NOTICE, and before the day appointed for lE commencement ofthe public sale of the lands embrac5 the tract claimed otherwise such claim will be orieleo