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LIBERTY STOVE WORKS & HOLLOW
WARE FOUNDRY, PhiladeIphia.

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WARE FOUNDRY, Philadelphia.
THE UNDERSIGNED respectfully inform the
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A PHOTOGRAPHY OF AN ENGLISH SOL.
"A DER IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY,
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DRIDGE BUILDING.-Tne Theory, Practice
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TyHE AMAZON RIVER, its valley and tribu.
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80, by Lieutenant Maury, United States Navy.
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SALES IN WISCONSIN,.

SALES IN WISCONSIN.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN that the public
IN sales of lands ordered by the proclamation Of
the President of the United States, dated the first
day of February, 1853, to be held at the following
named Land Offices in the State of Wisconsin, to
wit: at the Land Offices at WILLOW RIVER.
LA CROSSE, STEVENS POINT, and MENA-
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of May next-are declared to be postponed until
the 4th, llth, 18th, and 25th of July next, le-
spectively.
Given under my hand at the city of Washing.
ton this 18th day of April, Ammo Domini one thou
sand eight hundred and fifty-three
FRANKLIN PIERCE.
By the President:
JOHN WILSON,
Commissioner of the General Land Office.
Aprl 20-laWl3w
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By the act approved June II, lst4, the Clerk OF
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and manufacture of the United States, provided
the same can be procured Of such growth and
manufacture of suitable quality and at reasonable
prices, ppon good terms a. to quality and
price a. can be obtained OF foreign growth and
manufacture" preference viii, therefore be
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fractional townships above enumerated is required
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