The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1854-09-27
BY THE PRESIDENT OF TIL
limited STATES

N pursuance of law, 1, FRANKLIN PIERCE, Pres
declare known that Public Sales will held
At the nndernentonsd Land Offices. in the TER RtTO
kf OF MINNESOTA, at the times herein designated !,
10 wit:
NORTH Of the base line and Of the h principal mei
dian.
A. the Land Office at BROWNSVILLE, commencing
on Monday the eleventh day Of September next for The
disposal OF the Public Land situated within the under
me ntioned townships, viz:
Townships one hundred and one, and hundred and
Townships one hundred and one, and one hundred and
two, OF range six.
Townships one hundred lad one, and one hundred and
two of range eight.
Townships hundr and one one hu" dred and two,
one hundred and three, and hundred and four OF
range nine.
Townships one hundred and one one hundred and two,
one hundred and three, and hundred and tour, OF
range ten.
Tow nshss hundred ans one, hundred and two,
one hundred and three, hundred and four, and
bundled and five, of range eleven.
1T the same place, commencing on Monday, the TWEEN
tyhth da, of September next for the disposal If the
Public Lands within the limits Of the following town.
ships, viz:
North he baseine and rest Of the ffth prinepal msri-
dian.
Townships one hundred aud one one hundred nd two
one hundred aud three, hundred and four, and
on- hundred and five, of range twelve.
Townships one hundred an! hundred and two,
one hundred and three, aud hundred and four, Of
r,nge thirteen.
Townships one hundred and one hundred and two,
and one hundred three, Of range tDurteen.
Townships hundred and one, hundred ond two,
one hundred and three, and hundred and four OF
range fifteen.
Townships one and two one hundred and three
one hundred and four, ana one hundred and five, OF
range sixteen.
Townships one hundred and funr aud hundred and
Al the Land Office at SALTWATER, CONNER cling
Monday the eleventh day Of September next, FIR the
disposal Of the Public Lands situated in the following
named wnshIps,
North Of the line and of fourth principal
Township forty OF range sixteen.
Township forty two, of range seventeen.
Townships forty one, and forty two of range
eighteen.
Islands IN sections fifteen twenty two, enty seven
and twenty eight, in township thirty three, and town
ships thirty eight thirty nine, and forty, Of range nine
teen.
Also the following tracts situated in the former mill
tary Fort Smelling, be sold under the
provisions Of the act entitled An gc to reduce aud de-
fine boundaries Of the military at the San,
Peters river in the Territory OF Minnesota approved
Goth August, 1852, and which not subject to pre-
emption claims:
The south hall of section four south half Of five
sections eight, nine and ten; the west half and south
east fractional quarter Of section sleven sections
fourteen, teen seventeen n, twenty one, Except lots
one, two, and three reserved for military purposes
al the Ferry tw-nty-two and twenty three exclu
sive of all the Islands in the Mississippi river, in
township twenty-eighf, of ran.e twenty three.
At the Land Office MINNEAPOLIS commencing on
Monday the eighteenth day Of September next Tor the
disposal OF tile PUBIC LdnuS the following named
tow nsps. of which the portions situated within thu
former military at Fort Smelling are to be sold
in accordance with the provisions Of the act d 26tl
August, 1882 herein above quoted and which are mo-
subject to presumption claims, to wit!
North If the base line and Uest Of the fourth principe
meridian.
Townships tw enty- and twenty eight, exclusive
of the islands in the Mississippi river, of range twenty
two.
| Town ships twenty sven, twenty ghf, and twent!
nine exclusive of the islands in the Mississippi rive
| of tnge twenty four.
Ian appropriated by la for the Of Schools Mill
tary, and other purposes o be the sales
The offering Of the above lands will be commenced OF
which they advertised with all convenient dspatc
until the whole shall have been offered, aHt the sale
thus closed but sale shall be kept open longer tina
two weeks, and private entry OF any OF the land
will be admitted until after the expiration OF the tw
weeks.
| Given under my hand, at the city of Washington thi
| third day Of June, Ammo Domini, one thousan eigf
hundred and fifty four. FRANKLIN PIERCE.
| By the President:
| JOAN WILSON,
| Commissioner of General Land Office.
| NOTICE TO PRE-EMPTION CLAIMANTS.
Every person entitled te the right of presumption
any of the lands within the townships and parts q
townships above enumerated, is required TO establish
1 the same to the satisfaction Of the Register an
Receiver of the proper Land Office and make paymen
before the day appointed for the OF tn
public sale OF the lands embracing the tract claimed
| otherwise such claim will be forfeited.
| JOHN WILSON,
| Commissioner Of General Land Office.
| July l2, 81. l3w