Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1862-04-05
Published March Is, 1862.
CHAPTER l2O.

The People Of the State Of Wisconsin,, represe,a-
ted IN Senate and assembly, do enact as tozow,:
Sec. l. Every county surveyor shall keep a
record of the plot and field notes of each sur.
vey made by him or his Deputies, in a book or
books provided by the county supervisors for
that purpose certified copy Of which record,
or OF any other record Of his Office, he shall
furnish to any person requesting the same
The records Of all surveys hereafter recorded,
shall be 80 made and arranged as to bs easy of
reference. The said surveyor shall also pre-.
serve the original field notes and calculations
OF each survey made by him or his DEPUTIES,
and shall deliver them, together with the rec
ords of his Office, to his successor.
Sec. Z. The said surveyor and his deputies
may demand and receive for their sery;ces the
following fees, to wit: For each days service,
three dollars; for each mile travelled in geiRg
from his office to the place of rendering such
service and in returning, ten cents for plot
and certificate, except town plots, fifty cents
for recording survey, fifty cents.
Sec. 5. In all aurveys, the bearings shall be
| expressed as nearly as may be according to the
true meridian, and the decination of the mag
netlc meridian from the true meridian shall be
gwen, with the year, month and day of the
survey, except IN the survey Of an east land
west OF north and south line, when the decli-
u.
with the date thereof shalt be sufficient
Sec 4. Whenever surveyor Is REQUIRED to
| rake subdivision of section, as determined
by the United States survey, except where the
section is fractional he shall establish the in
terror quarter section corner therefor at
point which is the same distance from he east
quarter section corner that it is from the west
quarter section corner, and the same distance
from the north quarter section corner that it
ID from the south quarter section corner, and
he shall, where practicable, FIX the precise To-
callty OF the said Interior quarter section cor
ner, oy setting at the said point a stone the
cubical contents of which shall be equivalent
to not less than one cubic foot, or by setting
post in mound Of earth OF stones, or by driv-
ing post firmly into the ground, and writing
IN his field notes the bearings and distanc es
from the same to two bearing trees which shall
be suitably marked Il S" on the upper blaze,
and 'B. T." on the lower blaze thereof and
any less subdivision than a quarter section
shall be made and established in similar
manner.
| Sec. 5. Where the section is fractional, the
surveyor shall establish the interior quarter
section corner, and the eighth and sixteenth
corners therefor, at such points that whatever
the fractional line. Of the said section exceed
or fall short of the United States survey, shall
be divided between the entire and the .frac-
tiona part of the said lines, in direct proper
ton to the length of the said parts
| See O. W whenever surveyor is required to
establish quarter section corner not estab-
lished by the United States survey, in the north
or west boundary Of 8 township, he shall Set
the same in the middle of the north or west
side las the case may be) of the section to
which the said quarter section corner belongs,
and III the line determined by the quarter sec
| tloD for tho copfiop
as the case may be, except that he shall set
the north quarter section corner of section six
forty chains from the north east corner of the
said section, unless the north line of. the Sec
| ton shall exceed or be less than the original
survey, in which case the quarter section cor
ner shall be set at distance from the north
east corner, in direct proportion to such ex-
cess or deficiency and except, also, that he
shall set the west quarter section corner of
section six at like distance from the south
| west corner thereof.
Sec. 7. Whenever a quarter section corner
as established by the United States survey,
cannot be found, it shall be the duty of the
sUrV eyor required to establish the same, to set
it il the middle of the section line in which it
! beaags except in fractional sections, in which
case it shall be set at distances from the Sec
ton Or u,ee2Ger corners between which it be-
longs, }Slheh are directly proportional to the
entire and fractional parts of the line, as de-
termined by the United States survey
See. g. Whenever surveyor is required to
establish section cor .er which cannot be
found, he shall set the said corner half way
between tie quarter section corners next north
and south of the same, and at such distances
from the quarter seetion mean der corners
nextseast and west, as are directly proportion
al 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 lorth or south,
which are directly proportional to the said
! lines
Sec. 9. Sections l4s, $50, lss and 155 of
chapter l3 of the revised statutes and chapter
100 OF the general laws of 1858, and the sec
ttion revived by said chapter los, and aid other
acts and parts of acts conflicting with the pro-
visions OF this act, are hereby repealed; and
sthis act shall take effect from and after it's
passage and publicat on.
Approved March 9, 1862.