Restoration of Lost Or Obliterated Corners and Subdivision of Sections: A Supplement to the Manual of Surveying Instructions, Containing a Discussion of Practices Followed by the Bureau of Land Management, Prepared Especially for the Information and Guidance of County and Local SurveyorsDeals mainly with general practices and rules for the restoration of lost corners and the subdivisions of sections. These procedures are used by the Bureau of Land Management in its surveys and resurveys of public lands. There has been little change in these procedures since their first publication in 1883. Designed to answer many of the common questions arising in practical work, this pamphlet does not cover controversial questions or exceptional situations. |
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alinement areas bearing trees body of water Bureau of Land closing distance closing section corners collateral evidence corner monument corner position directions and lengths double proportionate measurement east boundary Federal Frac fractional section Government identified or relocated INTERIOR BUREAU intersection known corners lake Land Management latitudinal curve latitudinal line lost corners LOST OR OBLITERATED meander line meanderable bodies ment meridian methods Mid-point missing corner nearest identified corners needle compass North Dakota notes and plats OBLITERATED CORNERS Office official plat Ohio River original survey owners plats and field practice PRINCIPAL MERIDIANS protraction public land surveys quarter sections quarter-section corners record distance rectangular system regular corner restoration of lost riparian rights rules section and quarter-section section boundaries section lines sets of corners single proportionate measurement solar compass standard corners standard parallel subdivision of sections subdivisional lines temporary stake testimony township boundary township exteriors township line United
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Page 38 - that all navigable rivers within the territory to be disposed of by virtue of the act shall be deemed to be and remain public highways ; and that in all cases where the opposite banks of any stream, not navigable, shall belong to different persons, the stream and the bed thereof shall become common to both.
Page 19 - All lost quarter-section corners on the section boundaries within the township will be restored by single proportionate measurement between the adjoining section corners, after the section corners have been identified or relocated.
Page 27 - ... as the case may be, to the water course, reservation line, or other boundary of such fractional section, as represented upon the official plat. In this the law presumes that the section lines are due north and south, or east and west lines, but this is not usually the case. Hence, in order to carry out the spirit of the law, it will be necessary in running the center lines through fractional sections to adopt...
Page 19 - Lost meander corners, originally established on a line projected across the meanderable body of water and marked upon both sides will be relocated by single proportionate measurement, after the section or quarter-section corners upon the opposite sides of the missing meander corner have been duly identified or relocated.
Page 1 - That the Secretary of the Interior may, in his discretion, cause to be made, as he may deem wise under the rectangular system now provided by law, such resurveys or retracements of the surveys of public lands, as, after full investigation, he may deem essential to properly mark the boundaries of the public lands remaining undisposed of...
Page 30 - ... a. Secure a copy of the original plat and field-notes; b. Secure all available data regarding' subsequent surveys; c. Secure the names and contact the owners of the property adjacent to the lines that are involved in the retracement; d.
Page 10 - ... lost corner is a point of a survey whose position cannot be determined, beyond reasonable doubt, either from traces of the original marks * Harrington v.
Page 12 - double proportionate measurement" is applied to a new measurement made between four known corners, two each on intersecting meridional and latitudinal lines, for the purpose of relating the intersection to both. In effect, by double proportionate measurement the record directions are disregarded...