The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1854-08-09
BY THE PRESIDENT az THE
UNITED STATES.

N pursuance of law, FRANKLIN PIERCE, Pres
lare aud known that Public Sales will he held
at the undernentonsd Land Offices; in the TER RlTO
RY OF MINNESOTA, at the times herein designated,
10 wit
North Of the base line and 0est Of the Eta principal me'
A, the Land Office at BROWNSVILLE, commencing
Monday the eleventh day Of September next for the
disposal Public Lands situated within the under
mentioned Il wnships, viz
Townships one hundred and one and ole hundred ana
two of range five.
Townships one hundred and one, and one hundred and
Tow nships one hundred and one and hundred and
two OF range seven.
Townships one hundred and one and one hundred and
two of range eight.
Tow one ndrd and one. hun dred and two,
hundred and three, and one hundred and fsur, Of
Townships one hundred and one, hundred and two,
hundred and three and one hundred and tour, OF
range ten.
Tow nshps hundred and one, hundred and two,
hundred and three, hundred and four, and one
bundled and five, OF range eleven.
1T the place, commencing on Monday, the TWEEN
fifth da, of September next, the disposal of the
Public Lands within the limits Of the following town
ships, viz.
Townships one hundred and one one hundred and two,
hundred aud three, one hundred and four, and
huR6fed and five, of range twelve.
Township one hundred an! one. ore huhdred and two,
hundred and three, and oAe hundred and lour Of
range thirteen.
Townships one hundred End one one hundred and two,
and one hundred a11 three, of range fourteen
Townships hundred and one hundred ond two,
one hundred and three, and one hundred and tour OF
Townships one hundred and ,wo one and three
one hundred and tour, ana one hundred and five, OF
range sixteen.
Townships one hundred and four, and hundred and
i've, of range seventeen.
At the Land Office at SALTWATER. CONNER cling
Monday the eleventh day Of September next the
disposal of the Public Lands situated in the following
named townships. viz:
North Of the line and Of oart prineipal msr
dian
Township forty one of range sixteen.
Township forty two Of range seventeen.
Townships forty One and forty two of range
eighteen.
Islands fifteen. twenty two, twenty seven,
and twenty eight in township thirty three, and town
ships thirty eight, thirty Mines and f"rty OF range nine
Also, the following tracts situated in the former mill
tary Fort Smelling, be sold under the
provisions of the entitled An sct to reduce and de-
fine the boundaries of the military at the Saint
Peters river in the Territory of Minnesota approved
10th August. 1852 and which not subject to pre-
emption claims:
The section four south half Of section ve
sections eight, nine and the west half south
east fractional quarter of section eleven, sections
fourteen, fifteen, seventeen twenty one Except lots
one. two. and three, reserved for military purposes
AT the Ferry twenty two and twenty three exclu-
sive of al the Islands in the Mississippi river in
tnwnship twenty weight, of rance twenty three.
At the Land Office MINNEAPOLIS commencing on
Monday, the eighteenth day Of September next for the
disposal of the Public Lands in the following named
townships, OF which the portions situated within the
former military Fort Smelling are to be sold
in accordance with the provisions Of the # 26th
August. 1889, herein above quoted and which are
subject to pre- emption claims, to wit:
North e the base line pest of the fourth
meridian.
Townships tw enty-seven and twenty eight exclusive
OF the islands in the Mississippi river range twenty
two.
Townships twenty 9 ven, twenty ght, and twenty
exclusive ct the islands in the Mississippi
of range twenty four.
Lanis appropriated by Ia for the Of Schools Mill
tary, and other purposes, M be the sales
The offering of the above lands will be ed on
the days appointed, and will proceed in order
which they advertised with all convenient dispatch
until the whole shall have be offered, AMI the sales
thus closed but sale shall be open longer than
two weeks. and no private entry of any of the lands
will he admitted until after the expiration of the two
| weeks.
Given under my hand, at the city Of Washington this
third day of June Ammo Domini, one thousan eight
hundred and fifty four. FRANKLIN PIERCE
| By the President:
/ JOAN WILSON,
L mi Of yo,J