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Show 4640 Kirkpatrick- D 2654 navigable stream, or any meanderable body of water, corners at such intersections will be established at the time of running these lines. Such monuments are called meander corners. In the survey of lands bordering on tide waters, meander corners may be temporarily set at the intersection of the surveyed lines with the margin of mean high tide, but no monument should be placed in a position exposed to the beating of waves and the action of ice in severe weather. In all such cases witness corner on the line surveyed, at a secure point near the trus point for the meander conner, will be established. The crossing distance between meander on the same line will be ascertained by triangulation or direct measurement, and the full particulars will be given in the field notes. " 229. Inasmuch as it is not practicable in public- land surveys to meander in such a way as to follow and reproduce all the minute windings of the high- water line, the United States Supreme Court has given the principles governing the use and purpose of meandering shores in its decision in a noted case ( R. your. Co. v. Schurmeir, 7 Wallace, 286- 287) as follows: " Meander lines are run in surveying fractional |