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Show 4636 Kirkpatrick- D 2650 referred to. MR. FARNSWORTH: May i look at it? MR. BLACKMAR: Supposing I hand that to the reporter and let him copy it into the record. ( the sections above offered in evidence are in words and figures as follows, to wit:) MEANDERING. " 226. All navigable bodies of water and other important rivers and lakes ( as hereinafter described) are to be segregated from the public lands at mean high- water elevation. The traverse of the margin of a permanent natural body of water is termed a meander line. " The running of meander lines has always been authorized in the survey of public lands fronting on large streams and other bodies of water, but the were fact that an irregular or sinuous line must be run, as in case of a reservation boundary, does not entitlesit to be called a meander line except where it closely follows the bans or stream or lake. The legal riparian rights connected with meander lines do not apply in case of other irregular lines, a as the latter are strict boundaries. " Mean high- water mark has been defined in a State decision ( 47 Iowa, 390) in substance as follows: |