The true Democrat., 1854-09-20
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE AND SALE
 OF STATE LANDS.

THE Auditor of the State of Arkansas. having cer- 1 ted to this office the annexed list of debtors to the Internal Improvement fund, who have purchased lands at the rate of two dollars per acre. and from whom the purchase money cannot be collected an act of the General Assembly approved the 10th January 1851, requires that the Land Agent shall offer the lands described in the annexed list public sale in not less than ninetyone days from the date of the last publication of this notice, with suitable notice to the persons who contracted for said lands and to all others who may claim to hold under them by assign ment of the certificates of purchase otherwise that the persons who contracted for said lands have wholly failed to comply with the contracts by entirely neg ectng to make any payment whatever for said lands, and notifying such persons that unless they shall with
 in sixty days from the date of the last publication of such notice respectively adduce to the Land Agent that they, as original purchasers as holders under the original purchasers the may be- intend in good faith to comply with the contracts originally made for the purchase from the Stats of said lands and that as such they have not abandoned proof they shall respectively file with the Land Agents their bonds, executed by them to the State in such form the Land Agent shall prescribe for the full amount of the bonds originally executed for the pur chase of such land and all interest which shall then rman due and unpaid thereon, and shall agree by the execution of the bonds aforesaid pay the amount thereof in three equal and annual instaments with interest at the rvte of six per cent per each nstalment from the date of the bonds respectively until paid and unless they shall at the time of adduc- ing such proof and filling their bonds under this act also surrender to- and file with the Land Agent the original certificate of purchase granted by the Go the Land Agent for said lands, if any such certificates granted the failure to comply with any of said conditions shall be evidence conclusive that such lands have been abandoned to the State and that the original contracts to purchase the have been forfeited and upon such failure the contracts or gnaly made to purchase said lands shall be- and the hereby declared to be forfeited and abrogated and shall not be held either in law equity in any of this State be valid binding on this State any officer agent of this State to affect the title to said land'
 That after the expiration of the sixty days allow cd claimants to establish their rights to purchase said lands in the manner prescribed by section three of this act the of Improvements made before the pas sage of this act such of said lands shall not be so disposed of, upon making satisfactory proof to the Land gent of the same within thirty days next sue ceedng the said sixty days shall respectively be au thorzed to purchase in legal subdivision not exceeding one hundred and sixty or one quarter section of said lands including such improvement at the rate of dollar and twenty five cents per acre. payable in five equal and annual instalments with interest at the rate of six per cent per each nstallment from the date of purchase until paid to the State of Arkansas for the use of Internal Improvement land : sections six and eight of chapter ninety of the Digest of the Statutes of Arkansas shall apply to sales such lands as shall be sold under this section of this act"
 l therefore notify all persons interested. that unless the provisions of law above rected fully complied with will offer at public sale to the highest bidder the lands described in the annexed list. on Monday the 25th day of December. 1854. at the State Land office in Dardanee under the provisions of law relating to the sale of the Internal Improvement lands No bids less than dollar and twenty five cents per acre will be received.