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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... placed on the shelf at its lower edge ; and let the board be slipped up or down , until the pole - star can be seen through the hole . The light reflected from the paper will show the cross hairs in the telescope of the theodolite .
... placed on the shelf at its lower edge ; and let the board be slipped up or down , until the pole - star can be seen through the hole . The light reflected from the paper will show the cross hairs in the telescope of the theodolite .
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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.
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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.
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| Title | 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 |
| Author | J. H. Hawes |
| Publisher | J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1868 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 21 Apr 2006 |
| Length | 210 pages |
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