The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1862-04-10
Avs OF WISCONSIN.
OFFICIAL.
rpyblasRe1 March %, 1862, /.
L CKHAPTER l20.



- AIT in RELATION to county surveyors
IN PeoDze of tie State Of Wisconsin, repreSnte
IN Sen1te and assembly, do enact as toito'cS;
section l. Every county surveyor shall keep
,eeord of the plot and field notes Of each surVe.
made by him or his deputies, in book or book
provided by the county supervisors for that pur
pose a certified copy of which record, or OF an.
other record of his Office he shall furnish TO an,
person requesting the same. The records OF ali sur
veys hereafter recorded, shall be so mace ana al
ranged as TO be easy preference The said suryeyo
shell also preserve the orgnsl teld notes and cal
Gu atioons Of each survey made by him or his dep
uties, and shall deliver them, together with the
( records of his Office, to his successor.
/ sec 2 The said surveyor and his deputies may
demand and receive for their services the following
fees to wit: For each days service, S3i for eacl
mile travelled in going from mis- Office to the place
of rendering such service and in returning 10 Gus
/ Tor plot and certificate, except town plo'S' my
ceutB: for recording survey fifty cents.
! Sec. 3 In all surveys. the bearings shaii oe ca
pressed as nearly may be according 10 me true
meridian, and the declnation OF me naghetIc hie
rdan from the true meridian shall be given, with
| the wear month and day of the survey, except IN
the survey of an east and west or north and south
I line. when the decnaon Of the needle from the
line surveyed with fhe date thereof, shall be suit
I licent,
Sec t. Whenever a surveyor Is required TO make
a subdivision of q section, as determined Dy the
United States survey except where the section is
fractional he shall establish the interior quarter
section corner therefor at point which Is The same
distance from the east quarter section corner that
it is IRON the west quarter section corner, ana the
same distance from he north quarter section corner
that it is from the south quarter section corner ana
he shall where practicable, fix the precise Locality
Of the said interior quarter section corner, oy sci
ting at the said point stone, the cubical contents
of which shall be equivalent to not less man oe
cubic foot or by setting post in mo una OF eaFtIi
or stones or by driving post firmly INTO the ground
and writing in his field notes the bearings and DIS
tances from the same to two bearing trees Which
shall be suitably marked 81 S." Oh the UPPER blaze,
and "B IT," on the lower blaze thereof; and any
less subdivision than quarter section shall De
made and established in similar manner.
Sec s. Where the section is fractional, the sur
yeyor shall establish the interior quarter section
corner, and the eighth and the sixteenth corners
therefor at such points that whatever the traction
al lines of the said section exceed or fall snort OF
the United States survey, snail be divided between
the entire aud the fractional part OF the SAID lines,
in direct proportion to the length OF the SAID parts,
Sec 8. Whenever surveyor is required to estab-
sh quarter section corner not established by the
United States survey in the north or west bounda-
ry of township, he shall set the same III the MD
die of the north or west side as the case may pei
of the section to which the said quarter section cor
ner belongs, and the line determined by the quar-
ter section corner for the section next north or west
az the Gaze may be, except that he shall set the
north quarter section corner OF section SIX, forty
chains from the northeast corner OF the said section,
unless the north line OF til6 6ecIlOn Sdl 6ACe6u
be less than the original survey, in which the
quarter section corner shall be set at distance from
the northeast corner in direct proportion to such
excess or deficiency and except Also that he shall
the west quarter section corner Of section six at
like distance from the southwest 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 surveyor required
to establish the same to set it in the middle of the
line in which il belongs, except in fractional sec
tons in which case it shall be set at distances from
the section or meander corners between which II
belongs, which directly proportional TO the en-
ire and fractional parts Of the line determined
/ by the United States survey.
/ Sec. 8. Whenever surveyor IS required to es
tablish a section corner which cannot be found, he
shall set the said corner half way between the guar
section corners next north and south of the same
: md at such distances from the quarter section OF
proportional 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 al
distances from the corners next north south
watch are directly proportional TO the said lines.
Sec 9. Sections l49, $50, l52 and So of chapter
Is of the revised statutes, and chapter i09 of the
general laws of 1858, and the section revived by
said chapter 1903. and all other acts and parts o
&c conflicting with the provisions Of this act, are
eby repealed; and this act shall take effect from
and after its passage and publication.
approved March 81, 1862.