The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1854-08-16
RY THE PKESIDENT IF TIE
UNITED STATES.

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l ident of the United States of America, do hereby
declar aud make known that Public Sales will he held
at the nndernenton. I'd Land ufses. in the TER RiTO-
RY OF MINNESOTA, at the times herein designated,
~ Wit:
Norta Of The base lire Of the Eh principal meri
A, the Land Office a, 81, BROWNSVILLE, commencing
Monday the eleventh day Of September next for The
disposal OF the rabc Lands situated within The under
nuned T. wn>hips, viz:
Townships enc hundred and one and hundred and
two Of range five.
Townships one hundred and and one hundred and
Townships hundred asd One ana one hundred anu
two of range ght.
Townships one hundr and one. bur dred and two,
hundred and three, and one hundred and four, oil
Township. one hundred and one ore hundred and two,
hundred and three, and one hundred and tour, OF
Townships one hundred and one, one hundred and two
hundred and three, hundred and four, and orc
hmndie ed and five, of range cl ven.
" me same place. commencing On Monday, tn. TWEEN
tyffh da, If September next, for the disposal Of the
Public Lands within the limits Of the folio wing town.
NSr1 efAe base line and # the fin principe, msr
Townships hundred aud one one hundred and Two,
one hundred aud three, hundred and four, and
hundred and five, of range twelve
Townships hundred an1 one. ore hundred ana t"o
hundred and three, and one hundred and four, VI
Townships one hundred and one, hundred and two,
Townships hundred and one one hundred ond two,
hundred and three anG one hundred aud iour OF
Townships one hu and two hundred and three
one hundred and four, and one hundred and 1--WE, OF
range sixteen.
Townships hundred and four, ana one hundred anu
Eve, of range seventeen.
| At the Land Office at SALTWATER, commanding
on Monday the eleventh day Of September next FIR the
disposal Of the Public Lands slfuaed IN the Following
| nsmed townships, viz:
North Of the re aud est Of fourth principal mer
Town <l,ip fnrty Of range sixteen.
Township forty two, of range seventeen.
Townships forty one, and forty two OF range
Islands IN sections fifteen. twenty two, twenty seven,
and twenty eight, in township Thirty three, and town
ships thirty eight thirty nine, and fry, OF range nine
| teen. :.
Also the follow pg tracts situated in the former mill
tary reservatI Fort smelling, 10 be sold under the
prvisions the entitled s An ct to reduce aud de-
fine the boundaries of the military reserve at the saint
Peters river, in the Tertiary Of Minnesota approved
Goth August. 1852 and which ae not subject to pre-
rhe south hall of section fr south half III section five
sections eight. nine, and ten the west half and south
| east fracti nal qulrter If section eleven sections
fourteen, tcea seventee wenty one, (sxc. pl lois
one, two, and three, Reserved for military pirpo -es
Ferry two and twenty an;s, ssen
Al the Land Office a MIME APoIIs commrncin or
Monday the Eighteenth Day Of September next, fT the
disposal Of the Pubic Lands in the following named
Townships OF which the portions situaed within TIE
former military al Fort Smelling are To be Sold
In acccrdance with the provisions Of the act & 26tl
August, 1882, herein above quoted. and which are mol
subjert tapre empti"n claims, 10 wit:
North Of the base liac and Of the fourth priaeipa
II VI, s7ss meridian.
Townships tx enty-seven and twenty eight exclusive
OF the islands the Assisspp river OF twent.
two. S@A sf
: Townships twenty g ven, twenty ght and tweni.
nine, exclusive of the islands in the Mississippi river
of range twenty four.
Lands appropriated by Ia for the Of Schools Mill
tary and ether purposes scH be excluded from the sales
The oa-riag Of the above lands will b. commend ed
the days appointed, and will proreed in the order i
which they advertised with all convenient dspatc
until the whpe shall have he n ofrres AMI the sale
thus closed but sale shall be- keptopen longer tina
two weeks. and private entry If of the land
will be admitted until after the expiration of the tw
: weeks.
. Given under my hand, the city of Washington hi
Z third day If June Ammo Damini, one thOusani egi
hundred and nifty fo II. FRANKLIN PIERCE.
By the Presden:
JOAN WILSON,
Commissieaer Of General Land OMee.
NOTICE TO PRESUMPTION CLAIMANTS.
Every person entitled te the right Of pre- emp,ion
70 any Of the lands within the nsllps and parts
" townships above enumerafed is required to estabi
the same to the satisfaction of tn. Regst n
Receiver Of the proper Land Ofce and make payne
therefor practicable after seeiHg this notice.
before the day appointed FOR the OF II
public sale Of the lands embracing the tract clame
= otherwise such claim will be forfeited.
JOHN WILSON,
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