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TN pursuance of an act'of Congress, approrsd< or | the llth day of July, lS46, entitled "ARact tc authorize the President of the United States to sel the reserved mineral lands in the States of Iinoi, and Arkansas, and Territories of f<Wisconsin anc Iowa supposed to contaia lead cre,' I, JAMES K POLK, President of the United States of America do hereby declare and make known. that pubic sales of the lands heEefofore Ipttaheid from sate account of the ralpdbls lead mines therein will be held at the undefmentoned land offices in the State of ARKANSAS, at the periods hereinafter desig- hated, to wit:

 At the Land Office at BATESvILLE, common. cin6 on Monday 'the 18th day of March next fol the disposal of the public lands within the under mentioned townships, viz: Norh 0f ihe base line and trest of Le Gh Prfnctpa

 meridan

 Township nineteen, of range sixteen.

 Townships nineteen and twenty, of range seven teen.

 At the Land Office at FAYETTEVILLE com mencing on Monday the 22d day of March next, dermentoaed townships, to wit;

 North cf the base liae and tress o fac G princpa! Townships nineteen and twenty, of range eigh- teen.

 Lands appropriated by law forfhe use of schools, military, or other purposes, will be excluded from sale; also all quarter quarter sections, eff any CO., Vefeu In Wnple or tH part " tuose fuituhS ieascs which shall not be determined by the day fixed for the commencement of these sales.

 Pre-emption claims will not be allowed to any of the above lands until after tie same shall have been offered at public sale, and become subject to private entry and all of said lands which contain mine or mines of lead ore, actually discovered and being worked, will be sold in such legal b-divis- ion or subdivisions. will include such mines oI mfnes, at not less thas $2 50 cents per acre.

 The sales will each be kept open for two weeks. (unless the lands are sooner disposed of,) and no longer; and no private entries of land in the town ships so offered will be admitted until after the expiration oe two weeks from 'he commencement of said sales.

 In further execution of the said act, have eau. sed the Commissioner of the General Land Office to publish with this proclamation. brief deserp- ton of the mineral regions ia which these lands lie, and of the lands now offered for sale, which he has prepared from official documents and other means of information.

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

 By the President: JAMES K. POLK, JAMES II. PrPEa. .actiRg Commissioner

 ef ihs General LGad Office 