By the President of the United sSaates.
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 States. TN pursuance of an act of Congress, approred on the lith day of July. is46, entitled .An act to authorize the President of the United States to sell the reserved mineral lands in the States Of Illinois and Arkansas, and Territories of Wisconsin and Iowa, supposed to contain lead ore, !" |, JAMES K. POLK. President of the United States of Amenca. do hereby declare and make known. that public sales of the lands Aeretofors rsiAhsid from saie on sccounf ef the ssssabie lead mines Hsren, will be held at the undesmentioned land offices in the State of ARKANSAS. at the periods hereinafter desig- nated, to wit:

 At the Land ofIiee at BATEsvILLE. eommen- cling on Monday the 18th day of March next, for the disposal of the public lands within the under mentioned townships, viz:

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 Township nineteen. of range sixteen.

 Townships nineteen and twenty. of range seven teen.

 At the Land Office at FAYETTEVILLE com inencing on Monday the xzd day of March next, for the disposai of the public lands within the un- desmentioned townships. tuwit: r- r---.- NorfA ef tAs base iias ssd sasst ef e fh priacvai

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 Townships nineteen and twenty. of range eigh- teen. @

 Lands appropriated by law sorthe use of schools. military or otier purposes, will ke excluded from sale; also. all quarter quarter sections, any, vered in whole or in part by those mining leases which shall not be determined by the day fixed for the commencement Of these sales.

 Pre-emption ciaims will net be allowed to any of the above lands until after the same shall have been offered at public sale. and become subject to private entry; and all o said lands which contain mine os mines of lead ore actually discovered and being worked, will be sold in such legal sub-diyis ion or subdivisions, viii include such mines or mliles, at not less than S2 Sc cents per acre. The sales will each be kept open for two weeks, (unless the lands are sooner disposed of and no ioager and no private entries of land in the town ships co offered. will be admitted until after the expiration os two weeks from the commencement of said sales.

 Tn further execution of the said set, have caa- sed the Commissioner of the General Land Ofice to pubish with this proclamation. brief deserip- tioa sf the miseral gions in which these lands lie. and of the lands now offered fos sale, which he has prepared from ciicial documents and other means uf information.

 Given under my hand, at the city of Washing ton. this Sth day of September, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fcfty-six

 By the President: JAMES K. POLK. JAsEs H. PfPEa. .Acfing Commfsicasr

 ef hs General Lad Qfics.