Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1862-04-02
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CfINPTEE 1879.


CIlPTEE 1879.
AN ACT in relation to county surveyors.
The Psoy,zc Of The StIte Of Wisconsin represented
IN Senate and assembly, do enact rs foUol1s:
Section l. Every county rurveyor shall
keep a record Of the plot and field notes OF
each survey made by him or his deputies, in
book or books provided by the county su
pervisors for that purpose, a certified copy
Of which record, of any other record OF
his office, he shall furnish TO any person re-
questing the same The records of all sur
views hereafter recorded shall be made and
arranged TO be easy Of reference. The
said surveyor shall also preserve the original
field notes and calculations of each survey
made by him or his deputies, and shall de-
liver them. together with the records of his
office, to his successor
Sec. 2 The said surveyor and his depu-
ties NAV demand and receive for their services
the following fees, to wit: For each days
service, three dollars for each mile travelled
IN going from his Office to the place of rem
deting such service and in returning, ten
cents; for plot and certificate except town
plots fifty cents for recording a survey fifty
cents.
Sec. In all surveys. the bearings shall
be expressed nearly may be according to
the true meridian, and the defamation of the
magnetic meridian from the tue meridian
shall be given, with the year, month and dav
Of the survey, except in the survey of an east
ami west or north and south line when the
declination of the needle from the line sur
veycd, with the date thereof shall be sufti-
cicnt.
See 4, Wheneye- surveyor IS required
TO make a subdivision of section as deter
mined by the United States survey. except
where the section is fractional, he shall estab-
l'sh the interior quarter section corner threof
Mt a point which Is the same distance from
the east quarter section corner that il is from
the west quarter section corner and the same
distance from the north quarter section cor
ner that il is from the south quarter section
corner, and he shall, where practicable tx
the precise locality Of the said interior quar-
Ter section corner, BIZ setting at the said point
stone, lie cubIcai contents of which shall
he equivalent to not less than one cubic foot.
or by setting post in a mound Of earth or
stones, or by driving post firmly into the
ground and writing in his field notes the
bearings and distances from the same to two
bearing trees which shall be suitably marked
;. on the upper blaze, and B. T." on the
lower blaze thereof; and any less subdivision
than quarter section shall be made and es-
sabllshed IN 4 similar manner.
sec. ). Where the section is fractional
the surveyor shall establish the interior quar-
ter section corner. and the eighth and six
tenth corners thereof, at such points that
whatever the fractional lines of the said sec
ton exceed or fall short of the United States
survey, shall be divided betweed the ent- re
and the fractional part Of the said lines. in
direct proportion 10 the length of the said
parts.
Sc. 6. Whenever i Surveyor Is required
10 establish quarter section corner not es-
tablishcd BY the United Stats survey, in the
north or west boundary of township lie
'hal set the same in the middle of the north
or west side tas the ease NAV bel of the sec
ton - which the said quarter section corner
belongs, ana in the line determined bv the
quarter section corner for the section next
north or west as the ease may be, except that
ne shall set the north quarter section corner
81 section six forty chains from the northeast
corner OF the said section. unless the north
line OF the section shall exceed or be less than
ne original survey, in which case the quarter
section corner shall be set al 4 distance from
tae northeast corner, in direct proportion to
slch excess or deficiency, and except, also,
that he shall set the west quarter section cor
ner Of section six at like distance from the
nth west corner thereof
Sec. Z Whenever quarter section cor
ncr, rs established by the United States sur
vey. ctnnot be found il shall be the duty of
the surveyor required to establish the same.
= set in the middle of the section line in
winch ;; belongs, except in fractional sections,
~ which case it shall bc set at distances from
the section or meanGer corners between which
u belongs, which are directly proportional TO
the entire and fractional parts of the line, as
determined by the United States survey
lee. > Whenever surveyor is required
10 establish section corner which cannot be
fJund, lac shall set the said corner half way
between the quarter section corners next north
and south OF the same, and at such distances
from the quarter section or meander corners
'iext east and west, As are directly proper
uonal to the same distances, as determined
by the United States survey, except that
where there are fractional lines running north
or south from said corner, the same shall be
established at distances from the corners next
north or south, which are directly proper
tonal u the said lines.
Sc. 9. Sections li9. $50. l52 and 1855 OF
chapter 3 of the revised statutes. and chan.
ter log OF the general laws of 1858. and the
'ction revived by SAID chapter IO9. and all
other actS and parts or act. conflicting with
the provisions OF this act, are hereby re
pealed and This shall take effect from
and