Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-02-15
COUNTY SURVEYORS.

COUNTY SURVEYORS.
An act to create the office of county
surveyor having passed the house, is now
before the senate awaiting action.
In order to make it Immediately effec-
tive, the act provides that boards of coun-
ty commissioners shall appoint county
surveyors at once, and such appointees
shall serve until their successors in office
are elected at the next general election
and qualified. Such county surveyor shall
be practical surveyor; shall take the
usual oath of Office and shall give bond in
the sum of $1,000 approved by the district
Judge.
Each county surveyor may appoint such
number OF deputy surveyors under him as
he may think proper, being responsible
for the correctness of their official acts,
which deputies shall, respectively, before
they enter upon the duties of their office,
take similar oath or affirmation to that
required OF the county surveyor; and all
official duties performed, and surveys
made by deputy surveyor, shall be signed
by him officially, and shall be as good and
valid in every respect as if the same had
been done by the county surveyor
The county surveyor shall keep his Of
fee at the county seat and shall keep two
books of record, which shall be furnished
him by the county commissioners for
that purpose, which books he shall trans
nit to his successor in office. One book
shall contain the calculations by latitude
and departure of all surveys made by him
of his deputies, and each calculation shall
have corresponding number with the
plat and fields notes to which it refers in
the book of records. The other shall be
q book of records and so constituted as to
have the left page for diagrams and the
right page for notes and remarks, and
each diagram shall be numbered progress
lively, and the field notes of the survey so
recorded shall contain a full statement of
such surveys with the variations of the
magnetic needle, length of lines, location
Of corners, with description of such cor
ners, also description of all witness trees,
with size, distance, and course. All
calculations to ascertain the contents of q
tract of land by the county surveyor or
his deputy shall be made by latitude and
departure, and on each plat shall be laid
down the variation OF the magnetic needle
from the true meridian. In re-establishing
missing corners the county surveyor or
his deputy shall establish said corners in
accordance with the manual of instruc
tons of the United States to the United
States deputy surveyor.
1t shall be the duty of the county COM
missioners of each county in this terri
tory to procure as soon as practicable
copies, duly certified by the surveyor gen
eral to be correct, of the field notes and
plats of the original surveys by the United
States of the lands OF his county, and
shall have such plats and field notes
bound, each substantially in book form,
which shall be kept in the said county
surveyors Office for the benefit of the
public.
The county surveyors of the different
counties are authorized to administer all
oaths or atfirmations necessary to be ad-
ministered to road viewers and for all
other purposes necessary to the discharge
of their official duties.
Where a boundary line between two
counties is to be established the county
surveyors or their deputies of the two
counties affected by such boundary line
shall together make the survey and estab
lish the line and erect such monuments,
and all corners set by the county surveyor
or his deputies shall be made in strict
conformity with the manual OF instruc-
tons of the United States. All county
surveying and engineering on roads and
bridges shall be performed by the county
surveyor, and he shall be by virtue Of his
office one of the viewers in the establish
ing of new roads or the erection of bridges.
The county surveyors shall be allowed
fees for their services as follows: For
every survey actually made, $3.50 and the
further sum of cents for every chain
lineal measure above 100 chains; for cal
culating the contents of every tract of
land not divided, 81; for calculating the
contents of each division made in q tract
of land, rs cents; for making each plat,
20 cents; for each and every course there
on, and at the rate of 25 cents per folio for
all letters, figures and descriptions therein
contained; for recordings plat and certifi-
cate, 81; for every copy OF a plat and GER
tlticate, 10 cents per course and 20 cents
per folio; for travelling to the place OF sur
vey and returning, 10 cents per mile; for
establishing or re-establishing each corner
as provided by law, 81; for each and
every days attendance as witness in
court, where his evidence related to his
official duties, So.