Manual of Instructions for the Survey of the Public Lands of the United StatesU. S. Print. Office, 1902 - Surveying |
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1st rate August August 29 azimuth base line Bearing Trees bears N cedar post Chainman chains closing corner decl deputy surveyor diam dist distance east boundary elongation established face fracl grooves ground hour angle intersection Land Office latitude marked and witnessed marked stone charred meander cor meander corners miles minutes of arc mound of earth mound of stone north boundary notches offsets Pits and Mound Plate plats Polaris principal meridian public lands quart of charcoal raise a mound random line RICHARD ROODS scattering timber secant secs section corners Set a cedar Set a granite Set a limestone solar specimen field notes stake or quart standard cor stone charred stake stone corners subdivisions surveys tangent Thence I run Third Standard Parallel tion township Tree Corner true line true meridian witness corner Yellowstone River
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Page 19 - And in all cases where the exterior lines of the townships thus to be subdivided into sections or half sections shall exceed, or shall not extend six miles, the excess or deficiency shall be specially noted, and added to or deducted from the western or northern ranges of sections or half sections...
Page 11 - And the boundary lines which have not been actually run and marked shall be ascertained, by running straight lines from the established corners to the opposite corresponding corners ; but in those portions of the fractional townships where no such opposite corresponding corners have been, or can be, fixed, the...
Page 13 - President may prescribe, to cause the lands thus situated to be surveyed in tracts of two acres in width, fronting on any river, bayou, lake, or watercourse, and running back the depth of forty acres...
Page 5 - The plats of the townships respectively, shall be marked by subdivisions into lots of one mile square or 640 acres, in the same direction as the external lines, and numbered from 1 to 36...
Page 7 - ... in whose district suc,h land is situated, and where the change is intended to be made, under such rules and regulations as the President may prescribe, to cause the...
Page 19 - The sections and half sections bounded on the northern and western lines of such townships shall be sold as containing only the quantity expressed in the returns and plats, respectively, and all others as containing the complete legal quantity...
Page 11 - Each section or subdivision of section, the contents whereof have been returned by the surveyor general, shall be held and considered as containing the exact quantity expressed In such return; and the half sections and quarter sections, the contents whereof shall not have been thus returned, shall be held and considered as containing the one-half or the one-fourth part, respectively, of the returned contents of the section of which they make part.
Page 13 - Office, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars, nor more than three thousand dollars, and be imprisoned not less than one nor more than three years.
Page 11 - All the corners marked in the surveys, returned by the surveyor general, or by the surveyor of the land south of the state of Tennessee, respectively, shall be established as the proper corners of sections, or subdivisions of sections, which they were intended to designate...
Page 11 - ... acres or upwards shall in like manner, as nearly as practicable, be subdivided into half quarter-sections, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior...