Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-07-31
THE DODGE CITY TIMES.
DODGE CITY. SATURDAY. JULY 81.

The Acting Commissioner O the General
Land 0iice rules as follows in matter d.
rectly concerning many Residents:
There is no authority OF law for moving
corner OF the public surveys which can, 10
any way be identified az an original corner
estsblished by U. S. deputy surveyor and
approved by the Snrysyor-General. All
such corners must stand, under the statute
ma the true corners they we're intended to
represent.
Under the provisions Of the act OF Con-
gress approved February ii. 1905, the
course to be pursued in the Subdivision vi
sections is to run straigh: lines from the
established quarter section corners-U. =.
suryeys-to the opposite corresponding cor
pe,s. and the point OF intersection OF the
lines SO run will be the corner common to
tie several quarter sections, or, in other
words the legal center OF the section.
Ia the subdivision of fractional quarter
sections, where no opposite corresponding
corners have been or Can be fixed, the sub
division lines should be ascertained by run
ming from the established corners due north,
sou,h, cas-, or wet lines, as the case may be,
70 the wafer course. Indian boundary liIe
or DINER tAVcfuoi pouuoaAy VI eocn hdShou'
al section.
The Law presuppo'es the section lines
surveyed and marked in the field by the U.
&. deputy surveyors TO be due north and
south or east and west lines, but IN actual
experience this lie not always the case |;
hence, in order TO carry out the spirit OF the
Law, it will be necessary in runniog the SUBJ
divisional lines through fractional sections.
to adopt mean courses where the section
lines are not due lines, or TO run the sub
division line parallel to the section line
when there is no opposite section line.
Upon the lines closing on the north and
west boundaries of a township, the quarter
section corners are established by the U. s.
deputy surveyors at precisely forty chains to
the north or west of the last interior section
corners and the excess or deficiency in the
measurement is thrown on the outer tier of
lots, ms per act Of Congress approved May
10, 1900
In the sub division Of quarter sections the
quarter quarter-corners are 10 be placed al
poiu.s equi.d istant be ween the section and
quarter section corners and between the
auxr,er corners and the common centre of
the section, except on the last half mile OF
the lines closing on the north or west boun-
dsries OF q township where they should be
placed al twenty chains, proporiionate meas
urement, to the north or wesl of the quar-
ter section corner.
The sub-disision lines of fractional quar-.
ter sections should be run from points On the
section lines intermediate between the sec
ton and quarter section corner, due north,
eou,h. east OF west to the lake, water course
or reservation which renders such tracts
fractional.
Missing cor ,ers should be reestabished in
the identical localities they originally occu.
MED When the point cannot be deter
mined by The existing landmarks in the field
resort must b. had TO the field notes Of The
original survey. The Law provides that the
lengths of the line5 stated in the held
mole, shall be considered as the true lengthl
thereof, and the distances between corners
eel down 10 the field notes constitute proper
data from which To determiae the true local
ity of q mi-sipg corner: hence the rule that
all such should be restored at distances pro-
por,iouate TO the original measurements b..
tween existing original corners. That is, il
the measurement between two existing cor
ners difiers from that stated in the field notes
the excess o. deficiency should be distributed
proportioRately among the intervening sec
ton lines betwsen the said existing corners
standing in their original places. Messing
corners on standard, tow ship and range
lines should be re-tored by proportionats
measurement between the nearest existing
original corners on these lines. Missing
section corners in the interior Of townships
should be ree.t,biished at proportiona'e die.
tanoes between the nearest existing original
corners north and south OF the missing