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Show 4672 Kirkpatrick- D 2686 BY MR. BLACKMAR: Q Do you get his Honor's question? A I do. Q Will you explain? THE SPECIAL MATER: I would like you to put the question. I don't care to put it myself. BY MR. BLACKMAR: Q Mr. Kirkpatrick, just explain the purpose of meandering. THE SPECIAL MATER: First explain what the process of meander consists of. BY MR. BLACKMAR: Q What is the process, as to how it is done and what the purpose of it is? Well, a meander line is a surveyed line by courses and measurements along the mean high water mark -- the body water. We determine the courses of the meander line by instrumental process, measure the distance with a steel tape, and those meander lines are monumented with what we term, meander corners. Those corners are set at the intersection of public land lines with the meander line, and then when we prepare our plats, the official plate of the survey, we lot the lands abutting on the meander line. Q You what? A We lot it, divide it into lots, subdivide the sections, |