Report Of The Commissioner Of General Land Office For The Year 1868 Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from Report of the Commissioner of General Land Office for the Year 1868 The public lands are first surveyed into rectangular tracts, according to the true meridian, noting the variation of the magnetic needle. Those tracts are called townships, each six miles square, having refer ence to an established principal base line oh-a true parallel of latitude, and to longitude styled principal meridian. Any series of contiguous townships, north or south of each other, constitutes a range; the town ships counting from the base, either north or south, and the ranges from the principal meridian, either east or west. Each township is subdivided into 36 sections of one mile square, or 640 acres. The dia gram herewith Shows the mode of surveying the township lines from the initial point or intersection of the principal base with the principal mer, idian astronomically ascertained with reference to parallel of lati tude and degree 01 longitude. In establishing and surveying a base line from the initial point east and west, quarter section, section and township corners we established at every 40, 80, and 480 chains, respectively, which are for sections and townships lying north of the base, and not for those Situated south. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.