Manual of United States Surveying: System of Rectangular Surveying Employed in Subdividing the Public Lands of the United States; Also Instructions for Subdividing Sections and Restoring Lost Corners of the Public LandsJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1868 - 210 pages |
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... plat ..... RESTORING OBLITERATED BOUNDARIES .. MODE OF RESTORING LOST CORNERS .......... To restore extinct interior section corners .......... To restore Section Corners on Township Lines , in the fol- lowing cases : 1. Where it is ...
... plat ..... RESTORING OBLITERATED BOUNDARIES .. MODE OF RESTORING LOST CORNERS .......... To restore extinct interior section corners .......... To restore Section Corners on Township Lines , in the fol- lowing cases : 1. Where it is ...
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... plats , records , etc ......... Of uncovered meandered lakes ...... ..... Accretions - Riparian rights ....... Coal lands ....... Public timber Town sites ......... Town sites , Act of 1867 .... .................. . Repayment of ...
... plats , records , etc ......... Of uncovered meandered lakes ...... ..... Accretions - Riparian rights ....... Coal lands ....... Public timber Town sites ......... Town sites , Act of 1867 .... .................. . Repayment of ...
Page xvii
... plats * and transcripts are prepared and transmitted to the General Land Office , * The plats are uniformly constructed on a scale of 40 chains to an inch . approved by the Surveyor - General in his official capacity 2 THE PUBLIC LAND ...
... plats * and transcripts are prepared and transmitted to the General Land Office , * The plats are uniformly constructed on a scale of 40 chains to an inch . approved by the Surveyor - General in his official capacity 2 THE PUBLIC LAND ...
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... plats and transcripts are examined at the General Land Office and found cor- rect . The plats and transcripts are prepared without cost to the deputy surveyors . TABLE III . Areas of the States and Territories . Public Land : States and ...
... plats and transcripts are examined at the General Land Office and found cor- rect . The plats and transcripts are prepared without cost to the deputy surveyors . TABLE III . Areas of the States and Territories . Public Land : States and ...
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... plats of townships , at the Surveyor- General's office ; and when the boundaries of these sub- divisions are required to be established on the ground , a county surveyor or other competent person is employed . ] 4. PRINCIPAL MERIDIANS ...
... plats of townships , at the Surveyor- General's office ; and when the boundaries of these sub- divisions are required to be established on the ground , a county surveyor or other competent person is employed . ] 4. PRINCIPAL MERIDIANS ...
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17 links dist 25 links acres act of Congress affidavit angle application approved azimuth bank of Chickeeles base line bears bears N Beech Black Oak Bur Oak certificate chains Chickeeles River claim corner I run corner to fractional corner to sections deputy surveyor distance district elongation entry established field notes filed fractional sections 17 Hickory homestead inches intersection island lake Land Office legal subdivisions line between sections links wide located meander corner mile mineral mining patent plats post for corner post for quarter pre-emption Principal Meridian public lands public surveys quarter section corner random line Register and Receiver run North section lines sections 19 sections 25 sections 31 Set a post settlers South Boundary Sugar-Tree Surveyor-General Territory thence thereof Timber tion Township 25 township line tract trees true line true meridian United Variation 17 Walnut warrant White Oak Willamette Meridian
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Page 198 - With regard to the platting of the claim and other office work in the surveyor-general's office, that officer will make an estimate of the cost thereof, which amount the claimant will deposit with any assistant United States treasurer or designated depository in favor of the United States Treasurer, to be passed to the credit of the fund created by " individual depositors for surveys of the public lands," and file with the surveyor-general duplicate certificates of such deposit in the usual manner.
Page 202 - If no adverse claim shall have been filed with the Register and the Receiver of the proper Land Office at the expiration of the sixty days of publication, it shall be assumed that the applicant is entitled to a patent, upon the payment to the proper officer of five dollars per acre, and that no adverse claim exists...
Page 64 - I do solemnly swear ( or affirm ) that I have never voluntarily borne arms against the United States since I have been a citizen thereof; that I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have never sought nor accepted nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States...
Page 195 - That whenever any person or association of persons, claim a vein or lode of quartz, or other rock in place, bearing gold, silver, cinnabar or copper...
Page 168 - That any person who is the head of a family, or who has arrived at the age of twenty-one years and is a citizen of the United States, or who shall have filed his declaration of intention to become such, as required by the naturalization laws of the United States, and who has never borne arms against the United States government or given aid and comfort to its enemies...
Page 173 - That the person applying for the benefit of this act shall, upon application to the register of the land office in which he or she is about to make such entry, make affidavit before the said register or receiver that he or she is the head of a family, or is twenty-one...
Page 203 - That whenever by priority of possession rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes have vested and accrued and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected In the same, and the right of way for the construction of ditches and canals for the purposes herein specified is acknowledged and confirmed...
Page 173 - ... infant child or children ; and the executor, administrator, or guardian may, at any time within two years after the death of the surviving parent, and in accordance with the laws of the state in which such children for the time being have...
Page 196 - ... file in the local land office a diagram of the same, so extended laterally or otherwise as to conform to the local laws, customs, and rules of miners, and to enter such tract and receive a patent therefor, granting such mine, together with the right to follow such vein or lode, with its dips, angles, and variations to any depth, although it may enter the land adjoining, which laud adjoining shall 1)0 sold subject to this condition.
Page 199 - That no location hereafter made shall exceed two hundred feet in length along the vein for each locator, with an additional claim for discovery to the discoverer of the lode, with the right to follow such vein to any depth, with all its dips, variations, and angles, together with a reasonable quantity of surface for the convenient working of the same, as fixed by local rules...