A Manual of Land Surveying: Comprising an Elementary Course of Practice with Instruments and a Treatise Upon the Survey of Public and Private Lands, Prepared for Use of Schools and of SurveyorsF. Hodgman, 1891 - 480 pages |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
9 Diff acres adjusted axis bearing boundary lines centre chains chord clamp compass convenient correct Cosine Cotang course and distance curve declination arc deed deflection deputy direction Dist divided drains east and west East Omaha equatorial lines error established feet field notes fractional sections given ground horizontal inches instrument intersection June 26 Land Office latitude length limb marked meander line measure merid metes and bounds miles monuments needle north and south original survey parallel perpendicular plat principal meridian quarter post quarter section quarter-section corners random line river rule screws section corners section lines side sight Sine solar solar compass south line stake station stream subdivisions surveyor surveyor-general Tang tangent telescope tion township tract transit trapezium trapezoids triangle true line United States survey vernier vertical west line wires
Popular passages
Page 186 - No claim shall extend more than three hundred feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface, nor shall any claim be limited by any mining regulation to less than twenty-five feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface, except where adverse rights existing on the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, render such limitation necessary.
Page 187 - ... failure to prosecute the work on the tunnel for six months shall be considered as an abandonment of the right to all undiscovered veins on the line of such tunnel.
Page 187 - Where a tunnel is run for the development of a vein or lode, or for the discovery of mines, the owners of such tunnel shall have the right of possession of all veins or lodes within three thousand feet from the face of such tunnel on the line thereof, not previously known to exist, discovered in such tunnel, to the same extent as if discovered from the surface...
Page 188 - States surveyor-general that five hundred dollars' worth of labor has been expended or improvements made upon the claim by himself or grantors ; that the plat is correct, with such further description by such reference to natural objects or permanent monuments as shall identify the claim, and furnish an accurate description, to be incorporated in the patent. At the expiration of the sixty days of publication the claimant shall file his affidavit, showing that the plat and notice have been posted...
Page 240 - ... recorded in the office of the register of deeds for the county in which the land...
Page 191 - Survey, and the classification of the public lands and examination of the Geological Structure, mineral resources and products of the national domain...
Page 171 - The surveyors, as they are respectively qualified, shall proceed to divide the said territory into townships of six miles square by lines running due north and south, and others crossing these at right angles...
Page 168 - Island, and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to be free, sovereign and independent States; that he treats with them as such, and for himself, his heirs and successors, relinquishes all claims to the Government, propriety and territorial rights of the same, and every part thereof.
Page 185 - That mining claims upon veins or lodes of quartz or other rock in place bearing gold, silver, cinnabar, lead, tin, copper or other valuable deposits...
Page 231 - AN ACT providing for the sale of the lands of the United States in the Territory NORTHWEST of the Ohio, and above the mouth of the Kentucky river...