The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1854-09-13
BY THE PRESIDENT OF TIE
UNITED STATES.

TN pursuance of law, FRANKLIN PIERCE, frcs-
i ident Of the United States of America, do hereby
dec are aud known that Public Sales will be held
the underIentioncd Land Offices, in the TER RfTO
RY OF MINNESOTA, at the times herein designated,
to wit:
North Of the base line and nest Of the a principal mer
A, the Land Office at BROWNSVILLE, commencing
Monday the eleventh day of September next for the
disposal OF the Public Lands situated within the under
me n,ioned townships, viz
Townships hundred and one, and one hundred ana
two of range five. 8EE
Townships one hundred and one and one hundred and
Townships one hundred and one, and hundred and
two, Of range seven.
Townships one hundred AID one, and hundred and
two of range eight.
Townships one hundred and onf hundred and two,
hundred and three, and one hundred aud feur OF
nships one hundred and one one hundred and tive,
hundred and three, and hundred and tour, Of
Townships hundred and one one hundred and two,
hundred and three, hundred and four, and one
bundled and five, of range eleven.
1T the same place, mencing Monday, the twen-
yith day of September next, for the disposal of the
Public Lands within the limits Of the following town.
ships, viz
North eAs baselne and Of the GtA principal
Townships one hundred and one hundred and two,
one hundred aud three, one hundred and four, and
one hundred and five of range twelve.
Townships hundred and one hundred and two,
hundred and three, and one hundred and four, Of
range thirteen.
Townships hundred and one, hundred and two,
and one hundred ard three, Of range fourteen.
townships one hundred and one, hundred Ond two,
hundred and three, and one hundred and four OF
Townships one hundred and two one hundred and three
hundred and four, and one hundred and five, OF
range sixteen.
Townships one hundred and four and hundred and
AT the Land Office at SALTWATER, commencing
Monday the eleventh day OF September next, for the
disposal of the Public Lands situated in the following
NORTH of lhe base line and aoes fourth principal
dian.
Township forty one of range sixteen.
Township forty two, of range seventeen.
Townships forty one, and forty two. Of range
eighteen.
and twenty eight in township thirty three, and town
ships thirty eight thirty nine. and fory of range nine
teen.
Also the following tracts situated the former mill
tary at Fort Smelling, to be sold under the
provisions Of the entitled An act to reduce and de-
fine boundaries of the military at the Saint
Peters river in the Territory of Minnesota, approved
Goth August, 1852, and which ale not subject to pre-
emptiOn claims:
The south halt of section four south half Of section
sections eight, nine and ten; the half and south
east fractional quarter of section eleven, sections
fourteen, een seventeen, twenty one, Except lots
one, two, and three reserved for military purposes
at the FeHy,) twenty-five and twenty three, excu-
sve of all the Islands in the Mississippi river, in
| township twenty EIGHT, of range twenty three.
| At the Land Office MINNEAPOLIS commencing on
Monday the eighteenth day Of September next tor the
disposal of the Public Lands in the following named
tow nshps Of which the portions situated within the
former military reserve Fort Smelling be sold
in accordance with the provisions Of the act of Goth
August, 1882 herein above quoted and which not
| subject to presumption claims, to wit:
North Of the base line and Of the fourth PrncpG
meridian.
Townships twenty-seven and twenty eight, exclusive
of the islands in the Mississippi river Of range twenty
| two. ta
Townships twenty seven, twenty eight, and twenty
nine exclusive of the islands in the Mississippi river
! Of range twenty four.
Lans appropriated by la for the Of Schools Mill
tary and other purposes, ao be ercmdedrom tie sales
The offering of the above lands will be commenced
the days appointed and will proceed in the order in
which they advertised, with all convenient dispatch
until the whole shall have been offered, and the sales
thus closed but no sale shall be kept open longer thar
two weeks, and private entry of any of the lands
will be admitted until after the expiration Of tho two
weeks.
Given under my hand, at the city Of Washington, thin
third day of June, Ammo Domlni, one thousand eigh
| hundred and fifty four. FRANKLIN PIERCE.
BY the President:
JOAN WILSON,
| Commissioner Of General Land Office.
NOTICE TO PRE-EMPTION CLAIMANTS.
Every person entitled the right of presumption t
any of the lands within the townships and parts o
townships above enumerated, is required to establish
the same tho satisfaction Of the Register ant
Receiver of the proper Land Office. and make paymen
therefor practicable after seeing this notice. ans
before the day appointed for the OF the
public sale Of the lands embracing the tract claimed
otherwise such claim will be forfeited
JOHN WILSON,
Commissioner Of General Land Office.
July IL, 81. 13w