The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1854-10-04
BY THE PRESIDENT OF TpiE
UNITED aTAVsEx0

N pursuance Of law, I, FRANKLIN PIERCE, Pres
idenf OF the United States Of America, do hereby
declare aud make known that Public Sales will be
At the aforementioned Land Offices in the TER RiTO-
Ky OF MINNESOTA, at the times herein designated,
North Of the bas: line and rest Of the h principal msri
~ 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
nientiuned townships, viz aHf 20 bsDfIEIa1h aDr
townships one hundred and one and one hundred and
townships one hundred and one and one hundreS and
t two, OF range six. T1aI3FFI's17I III '5-IL1f7 n
townships one hundred and one, and one hundred and
townships one hundred AVID one and one hundred and
two OF range eight. ~ 81 =
townships one hundr and one one hun dred and two
one hundred and three, and one Hundred and four OF
range nine.
Townships one hundred and one one hundred and two
range ten. 5f II. VII - : =,
Townships one hundred and one one hun dred and two
one hundred and three one hundred and four and one
hundied and five, Of range eleven.
~ Me same place, commencing on Monday, the twen
ynh "a! Of September next, for the disposal of the
Public lands within the limits of the folio wing tow IL
North efhe baseline aud nest Of the m principal meri
TOWNSHIPS one hundred and one, one hundred and two
one hundred aud three, one hundred and four, and
>, one hundred and five, of range twelve. p
TOWNSHIPS one hundred an1 hu ndred and two
one hundred and three, and one hundred and four OF
range thirteen.
Townships hundred and one, ont hundred and two
and one hundred a three, Of range fourteen.
townships one hundred and one one hundred ond two
one hundred and three, AND hundred aud four oil
Townships hundred and two one hundred and three
one hundred and four, and one hundred and FIVE, Of
range sixteen.
At the Land Office at SALTWATER, commencing
on Monday the eleventh day of September next for the
disposal of the Public Lands in the following
| named townships, viz: HI
NORTH @ the base line and nest fourth principal mer
Township forty one of range sixteen.
Township forty two, of range seventeen. ss
Townships forty one, and forty two Of range
Islands sections fifteen, twenty two twenty seven
and twenty eight, in township thirty three, and town
ships thirty eight thirty nne and forty, Of range nine
| teen.
Also, the following tracts situated in the former mill
tary reservation at Fort Smelling, to be sold under the
provisions of the act entitled An sct TO reduce and de
fine the boundaries of the military reserve the San
Peters river in the Territory of Minnesota approved
Goth August 1852, and which not subject to pre-
| emption claims
The south halt Of section four south half Of ton five
sections eight, nine, and ten the west half and south
east fractional quarter of section eleven, sections
fourteen fifteen, seventee twenty One (except lot
one, two, and three, reserved for military purposes
al the Ferry,) twenty-five and twenty three, exclu
sve of all the Islands in the Mississippi river, il
! township twenty EIGHT, of range twenty three.
/ At the Land Office MINNEAPOLIS commencing or
Monday, the eighteenth day of September next, for tn,
|
tow nshps of which the portions situated within til,
former military at Fort Smelling be sold
in accordance with the provisions Of the act Il 26tl
August, 1852, herein above quoted and which are mo-
| subject to presumption claims, to wit!
North Of the base line and Of the fourth principe
| msrid,an. asses
Townships tw enty and twenty-eight, exclusive
of the islands in the Mississippi river OF range twenty
| two
Townships twenty Sven, twenty eight, and twenty
nine exclusive of the islands in the Mississippi river
| OF range twenty four.
Lanis appropriated by la for the of Schools Mill
! The offering Of the above lands will BE- commenced Oh
the days appointed, and will proceed in the order j
which they advertised with all convenient dspatc
until the whole shall have been offered, AMI the sale
thus closed but sale shall be kept 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 Domlni, one THOUSAND eigh
| hundred and fifty four. FRANKLIN PIERCE.
| JOAN WILSON, bp
| Commissioner Of General Land Office.
NOTICE TO PRE-EMPTION CLAIMANTS.
Every person entitled to the right of pre- Exemption I
any Of the lands within the townships and parts 9
townships above enumerated is required 10 establish
Receiver of the proper Land Office. and make paymen
therefor practicable after seeing this notice.
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, A
! Commissioner of General Land Office.
| July ~, 81. 13w