Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-10-27
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE AND SALE
 of the Seminary Lands m the Little

EOck BtstrIct.
 THE Auditor of the State of Arkansas has certified Il to this office the annexed debtor to the Semina- ry fund, who has purchased land and has allow cd two or more instalmeuts upon the bonds exc cuted for said land to remain due and unpaid An Act approved the 22d day of January 1855 requires that the Land Agent shall offer the lands described in the annexed list, at public sale in not less than nina yone days from the date of this advertisement with q suitable notice to the persons therein named who contracted for the purchase of the said hands, and to all others who claim to hold under then. by assign ment of the certificate of purchase tha, they have faled to comply with their contract by allowing two insamens upon the bonds executed for said land to remain due and unpaid and notifying such persons that unless they shall within sixty days from the last publication of this notice respectively adduce proof satisfactory to the Land Agent hatthe as the orri- nal purchasers or the assignees of the original pur- chascrs have property sufficient. and intend in good faith to pay up and discharge their liabilities to the State under such contract that unless at the time of adducng said proof they shall also file with said Land Agent their bonds executed the State of Ar kansas for the use of the Seminary fund in such form as he shall prescribe with security to be ap- proved by said Agent for the full amount of the bond original y executed Oi said land together with all in tercst due thereon and shall agree by the execution of said bond, aforesaid to pay the amount thereof in three equal annual instalments with interest on each lnstalment from the date of such bond until paid at the rate of six per cenum per annum; and unless they shall at the time of adducing such proof and filing their bonds aforesaid also surrender to and file with the Land Agent the original certificate of Land Agent such lands If any such certificate was issued that the failure on their part to comply with any of the condi tons above named shall be conclusive evidence that such lands have been abandoned to the State and that the original contracts of purchase have been for felted and upon such failure, the original contracts to purchase said lands shall be- and the same are here by declared to he forfeited and abrogated and shall not be held either in law or equity in any court of ths State to be valid or binding this State or any officer or agent thereof, to affect the title of the State to said lands.
 hat after the expiration of the sixty days allowed claimants to establish their rights to renew their con tracts for the purchase of said lands in the manner prescribed by the fifth section of this act the owners of improvements made before the passage of this act upon such of said lands shall not be disposed of AS provided in said section five upon making satisfcto- " proof thereof to the Land Agent within thirty days next succeeding the said sixty days shall be author zed to purchase in legal subdivisions not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres or one quarter section of said land including said improvement at the price at which such lands were originally sold by the State aiding thereto the interest at six percent per annu on said amount, from the date of the original sale for which amount and interest such owners of improve ments shall execute their to the State of Arkan- sas for the use of the Seminary fund with security to be approved by the Land Agent, as provided in section one of this act; which bond shall be payable n five equal annual instalmeutS with interest at the rate of six per cent. per annum on each ipsalment from the date ofsuch bond till paid
 therefore notify all persons interested that will offer at public sale to the highest bidder the lands described in the annexed list on the Sd day of Febfuary. 1858. at the State Land office in Little Rock, provided said lands are not taken up accorl- ing to the provisions of the above act and that they sha not be sold for less price than dollar and twenty-five cents per acre.
 PETER DANIEL CRAlG-S. w. ar of Sec 2s. T. north, range l7 west III acres and 8S hun dredths, date of bond Oct 9th. 1850; s222 so.
 JOHN HUTT
 Land Agent for Little Rock District.
 Oct. 20th, 1857 3t