Congressional Serial Set Volume 1910 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ... to deputies operating in certain localities, they would in all probability be as freely taken under a still further reduction of rates, while the difficulty in obtaining satisfactory surveys would be correspondingly enhanced. Whatever views may be entertained on the question of advancing rates of payment for surveys, it appears that special examinations do not afford sufficient safeguard against imperfect and fraudulent surveys, as they give no assurance that the worst cases may not be overlooked. Under existing laws and regulations, the only remedy seems to lie in providing for prompt examination or inspection in the field of every survey of public lands that may be executed hereafter. To be satisfactory, inspections shoidd be made at the time of the completion of the work embraced in any given contract or soon after. In cases where the execution of the contract is completed simultaneously with the close of a surveying season, inspection as now performed would necessarily be postponed until the following year, and payment upon such contracts would be correspondingly delayed. To obviate this difficulty, such methods of perfecting original surveys should be enforced as would confine the work of inspection simply to an examination of the manner in which the marks or monuments of the surveys have been established Circles indicate proposed locations of iron posts, 16 in all, 9 of which; chargeable to one township of a series of surveys. or constructed. This accomplished, the cost of inspection may be reduced to a comparatively small sum. Specifications, intended as supplementary to existing requirements, have been prepared, the enforcement of which it is believed would assure the desired accuracy in the performance of the fieldwork, and also furnish to this of...