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 Lands |
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... Timber - Dates - General description - Names of sur- veying party - Verification of deputy surveyors - Verification of assistants - Approval and certificate of Surveyor - General .. 42 OF MEANDERING . Meandering of navigable rivers ...
... Timber - Dates - General description - Names of sur- veying party - Verification of deputy surveyors - Verification of assistants - Approval and certificate of Surveyor - General .. 42 OF MEANDERING . Meandering of navigable rivers ...
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... timber ......... Town sites ........ 158 158 Town sites , Act of 1867 .......... Repayment of purchase money and changes of entry .. Graduated lands .......... 161 162 164 Agricultural and Mechanical College scrip .. Indian scrip ...
... timber ......... Town sites ........ 158 158 Town sites , Act of 1867 .......... Repayment of purchase money and changes of entry .. Graduated lands .......... 161 162 164 Agricultural and Mechanical College scrip .. Indian scrip ...
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... timber , under- growth , etc. , on each mile of line run , should follow the notes thereof , and not be mixed up with them . 7. No abbreviations of words are allowable , except such as are constantly recurring , as " sec . " for section ...
... timber , under- growth , etc. , on each mile of line run , should follow the notes thereof , and not be mixed up with them . 7. No abbreviations of words are allowable , except such as are constantly recurring , as " sec . " for section ...
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... TIMBER . - Name the several kinds of timber and undergrowth in the order in which they predominate , on each mile of line . 21. DATES . - State the month and day of the month in a separate line , immediately following the notes of each ...
... TIMBER . - Name the several kinds of timber and undergrowth in the order in which they predominate , on each mile of line . 21. DATES . - State the month and day of the month in a separate line , immediately following the notes of each ...
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... timber , and depth to which the bottoms are subject to overflow . The lakes , bayous , ponds , and so much of meanderable rivers as lie within the boundaries of a township are to be meandered at the time of subdividing the township ...
... timber , and depth to which the bottoms are subject to overflow . The lakes , bayous , ponds , and so much of meanderable rivers as lie within the boundaries of a township are to be meandered at the time of subdividing the township ...
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17 links dist 25 links 40 chains acres angle approved azimuth bank of Chickeeles base line bearing trees bears N Beech Black Oak Bur Oak Chickeeles River claim Closing corner corner I run corner to fractional corner to sections deputy surveyor distance district established feet field book field notes fractional sections 17 Hickory homestead instructions intersection island lake Land Office line between sections links wide located lode marked meander corners mile mineral mound notches Peter Traverse plats post for corner post for quarter Principal Meridian public lands public surveys quarter section corner random line range line run North section lines sections 19 sections 25 sections 31 Set a post South Boundary Standard corner Sugar-Tree Surveyor-General swamp Territory thence thereof Timber tion Township 25 TOWNSHIP CORNER township lines true line true meridian United Variation 17 Walnut warrant White Oak Willamette Meridian
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Page 64 - I, AB, 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 neither 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 173 - That no lands acquired under the provisions of this act shall in any event become liable to the satisfaction of any debt or debts contracted prior to the issuing of the patent therefor.
Page 167 - An act to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain...
Page 172 - 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...
Page 193 - 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 171 - 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 201 - 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 65 - ... I will support and defend the constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same: that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter, so help me God...
Page 171 - ... 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 194 - ... 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.