The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-02-13
County SURVEYORS Organize.

At a recent meeting of the County
Surveyors of Florida held in Ocala
there was formed a permanent or
ganization to be known as the Florida
Association of County Surveyors. The
following officers were elected: Presi-
dent, George Fuchs, Hillsboro coun-
ty; vice president, A. F. Harley, Du-
val county; treasurer, Hobart Crab
tree, Dade county; secretary, A. Snow
den Miller, Columbia county. These
gentlemen, together with James T.
Hancock of Polk, Randall Wells of
Putnam and J. W. Patton Of Alachua
are to compose the executive COM
mittee.
1t is the intention of the associa-
ton to secure the enactment of gen
eral State Laws whose objects shall
be the placing of permanent monu-
ments at all section corners in this
State; the creation of system foT
keeping permanent public records Of
surveys made in the several coun-
ties; establishment of county rec
ord showing accurately the location
and legth and width and condition and
the legal status of all public roads;
and the adoption Of a comprehensive
manuel of surveying in this State.
1t was the sense of the association
that the placing Of permanent monu-
ments at all section corners IS most
urgent measure. 1t was shown that
the clearing of the timber off the lands
of this State is rapidly o.bliteratlng
the lines of the Government surveys
and that unless this work is taken up
at once, vast sums of mhreV W.T.
lost to the owners of The ptorer'V arC
that the pfope4ty IS enAe."se4 W
endless litigation as to land lines.
1t was shown that a few of the
counties are thoroughly alive to the
need of immediate action in this mat
ter. Special legislative action has
been secured in the instance of two
counties and under these bills the
work is being pushed; two of the
counties of the State are doing the
work in a measure at the instance
of the surveyors and Of their county
commissioners, but the State as
whole is sorely in need of the ap-
plication of this system.
1t was therefore determined that
an effort should be made to get the
work started at once through action
on the part of the several boards OF
county commissioners; and that al
the convening of the legislature bill
be asked enacting the measure into
q statute.
The bill drafted by the Honorable
E. J. L'Engle of Jacksonville anc
passed by the late legislature in be,
half of Duval county, which is WORK
ing such great advantage for the
property owners of Duval county, wa
favored by the association. This bii
is entitled as follows:
"An Act to authorize the County
Commissioners of Duval County, Flor
ida to determine and mark quarter
section, section, township and range
corners which are liable to be lost, OBJ
liberated or destroyed, and to re-estab
lish and permanently mark such cor
ner wnen the same have been lost
obliterated or destroyed, and to pro
vide for the conduct of such work
the preservation of the records there
of and the payment therefor, and t.
prescribe the duties. and compensa
ton of the county surveyor of sal
Ecounty with respect to such work, an
to provide a penalty for injuring, de
stroying or removing any such cor
Iners."
The city of Jacksonville was chose
as the place for the next convention
The date for the next meeting will b
set by President Fuchs.