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Accretions-riparian rights........

Anomalous sections.....

Areas of the States and Territories......

INDEX.

Base lines......

Bearing trees.

Boundaries and contents of subdivisions....

Boundaries of the public surveys not to be changed..............

Chain, standard...........

Chaining, process of ...........................

Changes of entry

Closings and length of lines in certain cases ...................................................... .... .........................
Compass, magnetic and Burt's solar........................
Contract and bond of deputy surveyor.....

Correction lines..

joint, when one deputy may verify.....

joint, when two deputies must each verify

must be approved by the Commissioner of the General Land
Office......

the Manual and instructions a part of every..

Copies of General Land Office records, how obtained.
Corners, closing

kinds of public.......................
meander.....

mode of perpetuating
obliterated, how restored

quarter section.........
section.....

standard.

standard township.
township...

Field books....

Deputy surveyors, laws and regulations concerning....

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objects and data to be noted in..

Field notes, specimen of..........

Field operations, when to commence.....................................................
Flats, wide, of surveying....

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General Land Office letters relating to the subdivision of sections and
restoring of lost corners
Graduated lands

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Land offices, legislation in regard to discontinuance of
Land system, the U. S....

Lands, foreign titles to

commutations of, within railroad limits....

public, rights of foreigners in regard to acquiring..
Land warrants....

Act of June 3d, 1858.....

Act of June 23d, 1860.
assignment of...

Marking tools.......
Meandering........

Meridians, principal.......

General Land Office circular relating to...

Laws of Congress relating to surveying the public lands.
Legal subdivisions...

Line trees....

Lines, of marking..

coursing and measuring

how run...

insuperable objects on.........................

convergency of the.......
independent......
the six principal..

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Measuring distances over lakes and rivers..
Mineral resources of the United States...

Ohio, 206; Indiana, 207; Illinois, 207; Michigan, 208; Wiscon-
sin, 208; Iowa, 209; Missouri, 209; Arkansas, 209; Min-
nesota, 209; Kansas, 210; New Mexico, 210; Colorado, 212;
California, 212; Nevada, 213; Montana, 214; Idaho, 217.
Coal.........

Gold and silver..

Pacific railroad........
Pits, witness...........
Post and witnesses.
Posts and mounds....
Pre-emptions.......................
Prefatory remarks......
Proportionate measurements.

Random lines.....

Ranges....

Repayment of purchase money
Restoring missing corners, of..

mode of....

Iron......

Mining claims

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Mounds, mode of constructing..

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Subdividing of sections...

Subdivisional or section lines.....
Surveying districts...

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legislation in regard to discontinuance of.......
Surveying, rates paid for.

Survey of townships west of the meridian
townships east of the meridian..

Surveyors-General.....

Surveys, order of carrying forward the public............
joint, form of affidavit in the case of..
made at expense of settlers in certain cases.
Swamp lands...

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