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Show He is familiar with the 1042 provisions of the ( instruc- instruc ) i tions with reference to making meanders . In respect to the details that are outlined in the instructions , they are more specific in their last manual than ( the the- the ) previous manuals contained . There were manuals , that were issued as early as 1885 ; another in 1881 ; . another in 1890 ; another in 1894 ; another in 1902 . The one he exhibits is known as the Manual of 1916 . . As time has gone along , in the instructions which were issued for the surveying of the public domain , . it has come about that attention has been directed to more particular means in determining the areas . of public lands subject to public survey and the ( man-- man ) ner in which they would become subject to survey as time has developed the necessity ( therefor-largely thereforlargely ) , of course , in connection with our experience in ( mat- mat ) ters that might have been before the Courts , where . perhaps some question had not previously been taken care of in the manner in which the Courts wanted to interpret the la ( v-tbey vtbey ) have followed the ( deci- deci ) , sions of the Courts , particularly ( with -with with ) reference to the . - details , and as our experience indicated the ( necessity necessity- necessity ) for it . ( R . 4095 . ) ( "Page Page -Page Page ) 216 , of the Manual states : Navigable rivers and bayous , as well as ( all- all ) rivers not embraced in the class denominated navigable , the ( right-angle rightangle ) width of which is . . : three chains and upwards , would be meandered on both banks at the ordinary mean ( high-water highwater high-water- highwater ) mark , by taking a general course the distance of their ( sinuosities sinuo'sities sinuosities ) . |