Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-03-01
Concerning Surveying.

GENTLEMEN:-Thro the columns
of your valuable papers | wish TO an
swer enquiries often made as to what
course of procedure is necessary in
the establishing of corners and lines
corresponding to same by county sur
yeyor in order that same may be per-
manent and legally immOvable. The
statute on this subject is as follows, to
wit:
SECTION Whenever the owner or
owners of adjacent tracts of land shall
desire to establish permanently the
lines and corners thereof between them,
they may enter into written agreement
to employ and abide by the survey of
some surveyor; and after said survey is
completed, a plat thereof, with de-
scription of all corners and lines plain
ly marked thereon, together with the
written agreement of the parties, shall
be recorded in the Office OF the register
of deeds of TIE county where the lands
are situate, and the lines and corners
of said survey SO made and recorded
shall be binding upon the. parties enter
ing into said agreement, their heirs,
successors and assigns, and shall never
be changed.
SEC. Whenever the owner or own
ers of one or more tracts of land in this
state shall desire to establish perma-
,oor+1x, +I,o oo,norc, or boundaries tbora-
of, and who will not enter into the
written agreement mentioned IN sec
ton one of this act, he or they shall
notify the county surveyor of the coun-
ty in which said land is situated, who
shall, on receipt of said notice, forth
with notify all parties instructed Tin
terested) in said survey, of the lines
(time) of making the same, and the
lines or corners to be established,
which notice shall be served as follows,
to-wit: If the party or parties are
residents of the county in which such
land is situate, the notice shall be in
writing, and shall be served at least
ten days prior to the time of making
the said survey, by delivering to such
party copy thereof, OF leaving the
same at his usual place of residence in
said county. In case of a nOn-resi-
dence of the county, the notice shall be
served by publishing the same in some
newspaper published in the county, for
four consecutive weeks prior to the
time of making such survey.
At the time mentioned in said notice
the said surveyor shall proceed to make
the survey of said boundaries. He
shall have power to administer Oaths
and take the evidence of any person
who may be able to identify any origin
al government or other legally estab
lished corner, OF witness thereto, or
government line tree OF other noted
object. Such evidence shall be reduced
to writing, signed by the witness, and
together with an accurate plat and
notes of such survey, shall be filed in
the Office of register of deeds of the
county within ten days after the COM
pletion of said survey.
SEC. 3-Sets out manner of appeal
Ii. e. any persons feeling agrieved at
lines or corners set by survey as afore-
said has right to appeal to district
court within thirty days, all parties
having entered into said agreement
and survey aforesaid are forever bound
by same. AS the balance of this stat
ute would not be safe to proceed under
without the aid of a legal gentleman, l
will leave it with he and thee.
Your Obediant servant,
BERNARD MARKEY,
County Surveyor.