By lEe President of the United

 States.
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IN pursuance of an act of Congress. approred on | the lIth day of July, lSl6 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 10 contain lead ore," 1, JAMES K. POLK, President of the United States of America, do hereby declare and make known, that public sales of the lands hsretofore mrihksld from sale on account of the raiaabie lead mines therein, will be held at the aforementioned land offices in the State of ARKANSAS, at the periods hereinafter desig hated, to wit:

 At the Land Office 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:

 Nork of Ls base line and trsst of he ffh principdi

 meridian

 Township nineteen, oi range sixteen.

 Townships nineteen and twenty, of range seven teen.

 At the Land Office at FAYETTEVILLE com mencng on Monday the 22d day of March next, for the disposal of the public lands within the deInaensioned townships, 10 wit:

 North Of he base line and tcest of he fh principal

 meridian.

 Townships nineteen and twenty, of range eigh- teen.

 Lands appropriated by law for the use of schools, military, other purposes, will be excluded from sale; slso all quarter quarter sections, eff any vered in whole in part by those mining leases which shall not be determined by the day fixed for the commencement of 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 mine or mines of lead ore actually discovered and being worked. will be sold in such legal sub diyis- ion or sub divisions, will include such mines or mines, at no, less than g 50 cents per acre.

 The sales will each be kept open for two weeks, tunless the lands are sooner disposed of,) and no logger and no private entries of land in the town ships so offered will be admitted until after the expiration oe two weeks from the commencement of said sales. In further execution of the said act. have eau sed the Commissioner of the General Land Office 10 publish with this proclamation, brief deserip- ton of the mineral gions in 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 farty-six

 By the President: JAMES K. POLK. JAMES II. PIPER. Acting Commissioner

 of Hs General LGad 0Fscs.