distance as may be necessary to run a correction parallel therefrom to serve as a base for the desired surveys. The manner of surveying the township exteriors from said parallel is similar to that already explained and indicated by the numbers on the diagram.

Townships East of the Meridian.-Begin at No. 1, Diagram A, being the southeast corner of Township 1 N., Range 1 E., and proceed as with the townships west of the meridian, except that the random lines will be run and measured west and the true lines east, throwing the excess over or deficiency under 480 chains on the west end of the line. The deputy will therefore commence his measurement with the length of the excessive or deficient half section boundary on the west of the township, and then the remaining measurements will all be exact miles and half miles.

With the notes of the exterior lines of townships, the deputy is required to submit a plat of the lines run, on a scale of 2 inches to the mile, on which are to be noted all the objects of topography on line necessary to illustrate the notes, to wit: The distances on line at the crossing of streams, so far as such can be noted on the paper, and the direction of each indicated by an arrow-head pointing down stream; also the intersection of lines by prairies, marshes, ponds, swamps, ravines, lakes, hills, mountains, and all other matters indicated by the notes, to the fullest extent practicable.

2. SUBDIVISION OR SECTION LINES.

The township lines being run, the next step will be to subdivide or sectionize the township by surveying it into sections. By a rule of the department a deputy surveyor is not permitted to subdivide townships the exteriors of which were run by himself. The reason for this regulation is that one deputy may be a check upon the doings of another, thereby detecting imperfect or fraudulent work and securing accuracy in the execution of the public

surveys.

Before proceeding to subdivide a township, the deputy must ascertain what change, if any, has taken place in the magnetic variation as it existed at the time the exteriors were run, and also compare his chaining with the original measurements. For this purpose he is required to retrace the first mile, both of the south and east boundaries of each township, and any discrepancy either in the variation or chaining must be noted in the field book.

Having adjusted the compass to a variation which will retrace the eastern boundary of the township, the deputy will begin at the first mile corner west on the south boundary, which will be common to sections 35 and 36— see No. 1, Diagram B-thence due north 40 chains, where establish quarter section corner, and continue due north 80 chains, to No. 2, at which point plant corner to sections 25, 26, 35, and 36.

From No. 2, run, on random line, without blazing, due east, setting temporary quarter section post at 40 chains, and continuing on to the east boundary at No. 3. If the township line is intersected exactly at the section corner thereon, the random may be blazed back and established as the true line; but if said random strike the boundary either north or south of the section corner, the distance of the point of intersection from said corner must be measured and noted, and a course calculated that will

run a true line from the section line on the boundary back to No. 4, from which the random started. The permanent quarter section corner must be established on the true line at a point equidistant from the two section corners, according to the requirements of law, and the temporary post on the random should be pulled up.

From No. 4 proceed due north between sections 25 and 26, as before, to No. 5, where establish corner to sections 23, 24, 25, and 26; thence east on a random line to No. 6, correcting back, as before directed, to No. 7.

Proceed in this manner to survey the lines of the first tier of sections up to No. 16, which is the corner to sections 1, 2, 11, and 12. From this corner run due north on a random between sections 1 and 2 to No. 17, the north boundary of the township. If the random does not close exactly on the section corner pre-established, the distance of the intersection from said corner must be measured and noted, and a course calculated that will run a true line south to No. 16, from which the random started, the same as randoms east, except that the permanent quarter section corner must be planted exactly forty chains from the interior section corner (No. 16), thereby throwing the excess or deficiency in measurement on the last half mile, according to law.

When the township boundary is a base line or standard parallel, no random is required, but a true line must be run due north, establishing the permanent quarter section corner at just 40 chains, and at the point of intersection with said parallel or base line erect a "closing corner," carefully measuring and noting the distance to the corresponding "standard corner."

The first tier of sections being thus completed, the deputy will return to No. 18 on the south boundary, and proceed in the same manner to survey the second tier, closing on the interior section corners just established, the same as he did upon those on the east boundary of the township.

In surveying the fifth section line between the fifth. and sixth tiers of sections, not only an east random is run between the sections, but a random must also be run due west to the range line, and corrected back the same as between the sections in the first tier, except that the permanent quarter section corner must be established exactly forty chains from the interior section corner, as required on the north boundary, throwing the excess or deficiency of measurement upon the last half mile or outside quarter section.

With his instructions for making subdivisional surveys, the Surveyor-General will furuish the deputy with a diagram of the exterior lines of the townships he is to subdivide, on a scale of two inches to the mile, upon which are laid down the measurements of each mile on said boundaries, the magnetic variations of each mile and the particular description of each corner, the letters "P. M." being used to signify "post in mound."

On this diagram the subdividing deputy will make appropriate sketches of the various objects of topography as they occur on his lines, showing not only the points at which they occur, but also the direction and position of each between the lines, so that the objects will be complete and properly connected in the showing.

The perambulations of the deputy surveyor in subdividing a township are fully shown by Diagram B, and the mode and order described are to be followed in all

cases.

LAWS, REGULATIONS, AND INSTRUCTIONS RELATING TO DEPUTY SURVEYORS,

The public lands are surveyed by deputy surveyors under contracts made with the Surveyors-General in the respective surveying districts.

The first section of the act of May 30th, 1862, provides