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Show Kirkpatrick- D 2658 are so deep, swift and dangerous as to be impassable may be meandered, where good agricultural lands along the banks require their separation into fractional lots for the benefit of settlers. " Shallow fresh- water streams, without any well- defined channel or permanent banks, will not be meandered. Tidewater streams whether more or less than 3 chains wide, should be meandered at ordinary high- water mark, as far as tidewater extends. " LAKES. " 232. The meanders of all lakes of the area of 25 acres and upwards, will be commenced at a meander corner and continued, as above directed for navigable streams; from said corner, the courses and distances of the entire margin of the same, and the intersections with all meander corners established thereon, will be noted. " In the case of lakes which are found to be located entirely within the boundaries of a Stanton section, a quarter- section line, if one crosses the lake, will be run from one of the quarter- section corners, on a theoretical course to connect with the opposite quarter- section corner, to the margin of the lake, and the distance will be measured; then at the point thus determined a ' special meander corner' will be |