New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-12-05
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Ifteh 1858 lzt27O720 100 27n720
6soa 81 5 57@ 90 80 5 57s 9 7 So
Total. $3.50 4G2 I66955598 3I27o994 l,2o5 289, $40
Exclusive Of Chickasaw lands.
Thus it is shown that in a few years, the
veys of the public lands in all these States will
be completed, aud the archives connected there
with transferred to the respective Ststes as pro-
vided by law. The object in pressing forward
the surveys has been to keep pace with set
Element and to enable enterpriZing pioneers to
avail themselves OF the benefits of the preemp-
ton act OF 1871. which in express terms excludes
| all persons who settle on unsurveyed lands.
Where the surveys have been carefully and
correctly executed, it is but seldom that
| yey is necessary and hence no further eXpendi-
tufe in this branch Of the service is required
Much embarrassment has been experienced in
| determining the location and survey OF private
claims especially in Floridn and Louisiana, but
under the udicious direction of the Surveyors
General Of those States the difficulty to a great
extent have been removed. In Florida most OF
the private claims have been located and sur
veyed, and the work appears to have been done
in n manner generally acceptable During the
present season it is expected that the remainder
of the private claims and most, il not ALL of the
public lands of any value outside the Seminole
reservation in this State will be surveyed.
In Louisiana the re-surveys In the Greensbur8
District authorized by the act of Doth August,
1912 have been prosecuted with great diligence
under the iudicous and skillful direction OF the
Surveyor General, and many OF the erroneous ana
| fraudulent surveys in that district, which had ma
terally retarded public business for years and
| proved source of embarrassment and annoy
ance, have been corrected Every effort has been
made by the Surveyors General, and this Office
TO prevent errors and frauds in the public surveys,
and for this purpose stringent regulations have
been adopted, and explicit instructions issued.
Notwithstanding these precautions, it has re-
! Gently been discovered that in some OF the sur
veys executed many years ago. especially IN the
Northern part of the Southern Peninsula of Allch-
| gan errors and frauds were committed and
| few like character arc OF more recent occur.
renee These evils cannot be wholly remedled
by existing legislation or instructions. They are
caused by the want of skill or integrity ON the
| part of the Deputies and only be prevented
bv an active surveillance in the field for which,
and the expenses attending it, there is no au-
thoritv of law or by the employment OF such
Deputy Surveyors only as are OF unlmpeachabe
character aud high scientific attainments. Since
the discovery of the errors and frauds alluded to,
special instructions have been dispatched to the
Surveyors General to employ none but such as are
oftred integrity and unqucstonabe abilities, and
additional regulations have been adopted in
gard to their bonds, in order to insure. as Tar as
possible reimbursement to the Government II
the surveys now IN progress OF execution should
not come up to the requirements OF the Depart
mcnt.
The most certain preventive, however, of this
difficulty would be to extend the provisions of the
Act of 30th September last, SO as to authorize, in
all cases. iudcious combination OF the Geodetlc
with the present admirable rectangular system of
SURVEYS BY this process the work of each DepU
ty will be check upon the others, and any error
will necessarily lead to examination and detection
The exact geographical position Of all important
objects will be determined, and the principal to
biographical and geological features Of the country
ascertained and reported.
re0dllNr he
materially ret0rding the progress OF the surveys
or increasing their cost by the employment OF
competent surveyors and the use OF proper lnstru.
ments. To secure the services OF such persons, q
fair compensation should be allowed aud In order
to insure uniformity in the work, 1t has been con-
Guided to procure suitable Instruments and to
dispose OF them to the Deputies at prime cost, IN.
GLIDING transportation, reservln6 the right OF re
purchase.
Should Deputy leave the service from any
cause, these instruments can be purchased from
him by the Surveyor General, at such reduction
from the cost as may appear fair as secondhand
instruments, and sold to his successor at the same
rate. To carry out these views, an item has been
introduced into the estimates, for which appro-
priRtion is recommended, This system would
seem to be specially adapted TO our borders on the
Pacific, so far as the general features of that sec
ton have been ascertained, The elevated and
striking objects presented by the bold outlines Of
the mountains, would be admirable points, with
WllCN 10 CONNECT u series OF lTlanSulatlOnS, from
the bases laid down in running the parallels and
meridians necessary to the rectangular surveys,
and from these points full views of tie whole Of
the intermediate valleys could be given.
By combining these triougulations with the rec.
tangular surveys and full geological description,
the most perfect maps of that region could be pro.
duced, cxcelling those Of any other section of the
country 1t would admit also of 6 departure from
the rectangular system, when necessary, along
streams, in narrow valleys where il may be found
expedent to survey the lands into tracts fronting
ON the Rivers, and running into the uplands for
timber, similar somewhat in character to the sur.
veys in Louisiana, authorized by the acts of the
Sd March, ISL, and cath May 1924, with this diff.
ference, that the tracts should be larger and sub
ieot to subdivision by lines to be drawn from
posts set at equal distances the front to cores
bonding posts in the rear and the back lines TO bo
SURVEYED TO the cardinal points, Sc to conform
TO the lines of the rectangular surveys in the rear
In the placers, and other valuable mineral loce-
tions, authority should be given for subdiyiding the
sections or other divisions into lots OF suitable size
for mining purposes, and reservations should be
made along the margins of streams in and ada
cent to the mineral regions, for the miners, ana 20
be free to them in common for washing out the ore
In consequence of the great number OF bounty
Land Warrants issued and located the low rates
at which those warrants have been sold-aversg-
ing only about so cents per acre-the grants and
donations made to the several States for Internal