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Show 4641 Kirkpatrick- D 2655 portions of the public lands bordering on navigable rivers, not as boundaries of the tract, but for the ourpose of defining the sinuousities of the banks of the stream, and as the beans of ascertaining the quantity of land in the fraction subject to sale, which is to be pain for by the purchaser. In preparing the official plat from the field notes, the meander line is represented as the border line of the stream, and shows to a demonstration that the water- course, and not the meander line as actually run on the land, in the boundary.' " 230. The surveyor will commence the meander line at one of the meander corners, follow the bank or shore line, and determine the true bearing and measure the exact length of each course, from the beginning to the next meander corner. All meander courses are to be taken or counted from the true meridian and will be determined with precision; ' transit angles' showing only the amount of the deviation from the preceding course are not acceptable in field notes of meanders. For convenience the courses of meander lines should be adjusted to be exact quarter degree; meander lines are not strict boundaries and this method will give approximate |