BY the President of the United states.
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IN pursuance of an act of Congress, approved or
Il the eleventh day of July, 1896 entitled can act
to authorize the President of the United States to
sell the reserved mineral lands in the States Of Hi
nois and Arkansas, and Territories of Wisconsin
and Iowa. supposed to contain lead ore, l, JAMES
K. POLK, President of the United States Of Amer
ica do hereby declare and make known that pub
lie sale will be held at the land office at DUBUQUE,
in the Territory of Iowa. commencing on MON
DAY the eighth day of March next, for the sale or
the public lands heretofore withheld from sale on
account of the valuable lead mines therein, within
the following townships and fractional townships,
known as the rich lead mine district, to wit
North Of The base line and east Of The fifth principal


meridian,


Townships eighty-eight, eighty-nine, and ninety
and fractional township nnety-one, Of range one.
Township eighty-eight, and fractional townships
eighy-nne, ninety, and ninety one, of range two.
Township eighty seven, and fractional townships
eighty-eight and eighty-nine, of range three.


Fractional townships eighty-seven and eighty
eight, Of range four. ~ i. ....
North Of The base line and ,oes Of the tfih principal


meridian. o..
Township ninety, and fractional township ninety
one, of range one. ..f..
Fractional townships ninety -one, ninety-two, and
ninety-three, Of range two.


Township ninety-two of range three.


Lands appropriated by law for the use of schools,
military and other purposes, will be excluded from
sale; also all quarter quarter sections covered in
whole, or in part by those mining leases, which
shall not be determined by the day fixed for the
commencement Of these sales. ,... ".
Presumption claims will not be allowed TO any Of
the above lands until after they have been offered at
public sale, and become subject to private entry; and
all ofsuch lands as contain mine or mines of lead
ore actually discovered and being worked, will be
sold in such legal subdivision or subdivisions
will include such mine mines, at not less than two
dollars and fifty cents per acre.


The sale will be kept open for two weeks (unless
the lands are sooner disposed of and no longer;
and private entries Of land in the townships and
fractional townships so offered will be admitted un-
I'll after the expiration of two weeks from the COM
mencement Of said sale.


In further execution Of the said act, have caused
the Commissioner Of the General Land Office to
publish with this proclamation brief description Of
the mineral regions in which these lands lie and Of
the lands now offered for sale, which he has pre-
pared from official documents and other means Of
information.


Given under my hand at the city of Washington,


this fifth day Of September, ammo Domini, one


thousand eight hundred and forty.six.


JAMES X. POLK.
BY the President


JAMES Fl. PIPER,


Acting Commissioner Of the General Land Office.
The lands in the mineral regions, embraced in the