Sale of Lots in Iowa City

LUCAS, CLARKE

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 11/15/2008 at 02:02:04

Iowa News
Sept. 1, 1840

Proclamation.
By the Governor of Iowa Territory.
Sale of Lots in Iowa City.

In Pursuance of the provisions of an act entitled an “Act directing the valuation and sale of lots in Iowa City, and to provide for the same,” approved 25th July, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and forty, I ROBERT LUCAS, Governor of the Territory of Iowa, do hereby declare and make known that a public sale will be held at Iowa city, in the county of Johnson, in this Territory, to commence on Monday, the 31st day of August next, for the sale of lots in said city, which sale will be held under the direction of the Acting Commissioners of Public Buildings, and will be continued from day to day until the whole of the lots in said city shall have been offered for sale.

In pursuance of the provision of the aforesaid act, the lots will be valued previous to the sale; and no lots will be sold for a less sum than the value placed upon each lot. After the close of the public sale as aforesaid, an office will be opened in the city of Iowa by the Acting Commissioner of Public Buildings, where all lots in said city that may not have been sold at public sale can be purchased at private sale at the minimum price placed upon them respectively, by any person or persons applying for the same. All the particulars relating to the conditions of sale will be made known by the acting commissioner at the commencement of the public sale.

[L.S.] In Testimony Whereof, I have here unto set my name and caused the great seal of the Territory to be hereunto affixed.

Done in the city of Burlington, in the Territory of Iowa, this twenty-fourth day of July, in the year eight hundred and forty, and of the independence of the United States the sixty-fifth, and the organization of this Territory the third.

Robert Lucas.
By the Governor.
James Clarke, Sec’y of Territory.