Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-11-30
ANNUAL MEETING, 1893.

ment to the effect that Judge Clement
son desired some changes and additions
should be made in regard to the hear
Jug of certain cases at times when
court was not formally in session, and
that a suitable place be made in the
Court House, by fitting up the two
rooms on tue north side, third floor.
The matter on motion of Mr.. Meyer
be referred to the Committee on County
property.
Motion carried.
The following petition by County Sur
veyor Sampson was read by the clerk
FAIRPLAY, Nov. lltb, 1898.
To the Board of Supervisors of Grant
county, Wisconsin;-The undersigned
surveyor for said county would hereby
respectfully make application to your
Honorable Board for a certified copy of
the field notes of the original survey of
the different towns of the county TO be
kept on file in the office of the county
surveyor.
We need the notes of the subdivision
lines and boundary lines of each town;
of the islands of the Mississippi and
Wisconsin rivers, of the boundary lines
! along said rivers; and of the double
+. tier of sections in Town /, east, bound
4 ed on the Meridian line from tie state
4 line to the Wisconsin river | enclose
herewith a communication from w. H.
Cannon, chief clerk of tle land office at
Madison as to the cost of said field
notes.
We have at present in the office of
the county clerk two sets of pats of
the different towns of the county and a
/ d. scription of the witness trees at the
different section and section corners
supposed to have been copied from the
| original field notes The description OF
| the witness trees have been found to be
| erroneous in several instances. viz the
corners and distances being different
| from those given in the certified copies
of the original notes. Ia several dist
| anCes a course. "a distance or both, to a
witness tree has been omitted altogether,
| thereby rendering it difficult or impos-
sibie to determine the exact location of
| the original corner. OF the two sets OF
plats neither is certified 10 be correct
The older set of plats is only certified
to DO correct as to the double corners
on the Meridian Line. only two OF
which are given on the plats.
| There are numerous discrepancies in
the lengths of the section lines rs given
/ in the two sets of plats, amounting in
several instances to three rods and up
wards, thereby rendering it extremely
difficult to find the original corners. and
rendering it impossible to re estab ish
an obliterated section corner bv meas
/ urement to adjacent corners, with any
degree of accuracy without rasorting to
the land Office at Madison. The orig
/ inal notes gives the line trees the topo-
/ graphv along the line viz: the distances
to the crossings of creeks, marshes,
ponds, ridges, ravines, cliffs, etc, all
of which are omitted in the pats aad
all of which are in many instances very
essential TO the accurate determination
OF the original corners.
The original corners were establish
/ from sixty to siXty.two years ago. The
+ old witness trees in many instances
] have been blown down fifty years or
more--in many instances the ground
where they stood has been plowed over
i for thirty or forty years; in many in
stances there is no record of re,sur.
vey by county surveyor since the
/ original survey; in many instances
where there has been a re-survey the
record is so vague and incomplete as to
render but little il any assistance to the
surveyor at the present time. The
surveyor needs full and complete
/ history of the original survey as well as
all the assistance he can get from the
county records, and even then in many
| instances it is difficult to determine the
exact location of the original corners
and without such field notes and rec
ords II is impossible to do so. Iowa
county and other counties years ago
furnished their surveyors With certified
copies of the original field notes. nj
though they had at the time plats and
descriptions Of corners the same as we
have.
| would therefore respectfully ask
that your honorable board cause to be
procured NJ the earliest date possible a
complete Sot Of the original field notes
rs heretofore described, for the use OF
the county surveyor, To be k'pt on Tile
in his office and turned over to his sue
ceSsor. Yours Respe c,fullg
CHARLES SAMPSON,
County Surveyor.
Referred 10 Committee on finance.
County Clerk presented another petit
ton from the {. Il, 4 y railroad, ask
, Ing for an exemption of t.xts on Ger
tain right Of way, stating that the Co
, Treasurer of Grant county has given
notice that on the 10th day of Nav.
1898, he would sell for the taxes. inter
esl and charges due thereon for the
) year 4, d. 1892, the following describ
ed real estate:
, Lot one I'D Of section twenty -four
GAY; lot one (l) of section nine (9)
lots seven and eight e and s. of section
five (5), in township two (2) range
+ . !, / . 1. I.