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Show -9- The meander line of a lake lying within the interior of a section will be initiated at the established special or auxiliary meander corner, as the case may be, and continued around the margin of the normal lake at its mean high-water level, to a closing at the point of beginning. All proceedings are to be fully entered in the field notes. Artificial lakes and reservoirs are not to be segregated from the public lands, unless specially provided in the instructions, but the true position and extent of such bodies of water will be determined in the field and shown on the plat. Islands 233. In the progress of the regular surveys every island above the mean high-water elevation of any mean-derable body of water, excepting only those islands which may have formed in navigable bodies of water after the date of the admission of a State into the Union, will be definitely located by triangulation or direct measurement or other suitable process, and will be meandered and shown upon the official plat. In the survey of the mainland fronting on any non-navigable body of water, any island opposite thereto, above mean high-water elevation, is subject to survey. Also, even though the United States may have parted with its title to the adjoining mainland, an island in any meandered body of water, navigable or non-navigable, known or proven to have been in existence at the date of the admission of a State into the Union, and at the date of the survey of the mainland, if omitted from said original survey, remains public land of the United States, and as such the island is subject to survey. This is because such islands were not then a part of the bed of |
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Original book: [State of Arizona, complainant v. State of California, Palo Verde Irrigation District, Coachella Valley County Water District, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, City of Los Angeles, California, City of San Diego, California, and County of San Diego, California, defendants, United States of America, State of Nevada, State of New Mexico, State of Utah, interveners] : |