By the President Of the United

 States.
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\ pursuance of an ct-of Congress, appror~d on

 the ilth day Of July, 1si6, entitled An act 10 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 10 contain lead ore,' l, JAMES K. POLK. President of the United States of America do hereby declare and make known. that public sales of the lands hereioore Wtihheid from sale oa account of fhe raIuabie lead miaes fbeyeia will be held ai the aforementioned iand offices n the State of ARKANSAS, at the periods hereinafter desig- mated, to wit:

 At the Land Office at BATESyILLE, commen- cing on Monday the 18th day of March next for the disposal of the public lands within the under mentioned townships, viz:

 North q tAe base line and ctst of fRt flk priacpai

 Esridiaa.

 Township nineteen, of range sixteen.

 Townships nineteen and twenty, of range seven teen.

 Al the Land Office at FAYETTEVILLE, com menciug Monday the 224 day of March next, for the disposal of the public lands within the un- dermea;ioned townships. to git:

 North of ths base line and sresi af te h Priaetpai

 aeri1an.

 Townships nineteen and twenty, of range eigh- teen.

 Lands appropriated by law for the use of schools, military, or other purposes, will b. excluded from sale; also, all quarter quarter sections (f any CO., vered in whole or in part by those mining leases which shalt not be determined by the day fixed for the commencement cf these sales

 Pre-empiion claims will not 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 of said lands which contain Iaiae mines of lead ore, actually discovered and being worked, will be sold in such legal sub diyis iea or subdivisions as will include such mines or mines, at no, less than S2 50 cents per acre.

 The sales will each be kept open for two weeks, (unless the lands are scorer disposed of,l and no longer; and private entries Of land in the town ships 50 offered. will be admitted until zfief the expiration O: two weeks from the commencement of said sales, h further execution of the said act. have eau sed the Commissioner of the General Land Office to publish with ths proclamation. brief descrip- iioG of the mineral gions in which these lands 1 Iie and of the lands offered for sale, which he has prepared from official documents and other means of information. Given under my hand at the city of Washing ! lon, this sth day of September. Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and foriy-six

 By the President: JAMES k. POLK. | jAMGa H, PIrER. -fctiag Coamissionsr

 of tAs GeRerG! Laad OfIce.