General Instructions to His Deputies

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W. W. Hart, 1850 - 117 páginas
 

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Página 4 - Sections, each of which is one mile square, and contains 640 acres. Any number, or series, of contiguous townships situated north or south of each other, constitute a Range. 3. To obtain and preserve a convenient and uniform mode of numbering the ranges and townships, it is usual, in commencing the survey of an Insulated body of public lands, to run, or assume, two Standard Lines, as the basis of the surveys to be made therein. One of these standard lines is run due north and south, and is called...
Página 41 - ... satisfactory evidence being presented to any court of competent jurisdiction, that such surveys, or any part thereof, had not been thus executed, the deputy making such false oath or affirmation shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and shall suffer all the pains and penalties attached to that...
Página 36 - ... bottom"; or swamp, marsh, grove, and windfall, with the course of the same at both points of intersection; also the distances at which you begin to ascend, arrive at the top, begin to descend and reach the foot of all remarkable hills and ridges, with their courses, and estimated height, in feet, above the level land of the surrounding country, or above the bottom lands, ravines, or waters near which they are situated.
Página 34 - ... manner, the number of the page of the book where the notes of that line may be found, and, where the notes of the random line and of the corrected line are on different pages, the former must be referred to in red, and the latter in black ink '. 14. Leaving, after this, sufficient room for the oaths of your chainmen and markers, If necessary, at the head of each subsequent page, on which the field notes are written, you will insert a running title, designating the number of the township and range,...
Página 14 - Congress, may not be appropriated for satisfying military land bounties, and for other purposes, shall be divided by north and south lines, run according to the true meridian, and by others crossing them at right angles, so as to form townships of six miles square...
Página 41 - States, in whose district any false, erroneous, or fraudulent surveys have been executed, shall, upon the application of the proper Surveyor-General, immediately institute suit upon the bond of such deputy; and the institution of such suit shall act as a lien upon any property owned or held by such deputy, or his sureties, at the time such suit was instituted.
Página 15 - ... On this west line, the intermediate section and quartersection corners will be established, as the survey of the line advances. The same process will be repeated, in running up due north, from the township corners on this last west line, another series or tier of range lines to temporary six miles posts; establishing as before the most easterly one, and from thence extending another due west township line across the whole district, in the manner before directed. The same method is pursued in...
Página 17 - The hind chainman then comes up, and having counted in the presence of his fellow the tally pins which he has taken up, so that both may be assured that none of the pins have been lost, he then takes the forward end of the chain, and proceeds to set the pins. Thus the chainmen alternately change places, each setting the pins that he has taken up, so that one is forward in all the odd, and the other in all the even tallies. Such...
Página 36 - All roads and trails with the courses they bear. 18. All offsets or calculations by which you obtain the length of such parts of your lines as cannot be measured with the chain. 19. The precise course and distance of all witness corners from the true corners which they represent.
Página 18 - ... 5. The posts must be erected at the distance of every mile, and half mile from where the town or sectional line commenced (except a tree may be so situated as to supply the place of a post) which post must be at least three inches diameter and rise not less than three feet. All mile posts must have as many notches cut on two sides of them as there are miles distant from where...

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