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Show 6094 536 4094 Q And are you familiar with the instructions of the Department of the Interior, General Land Office, with refer-ence to the method of making the surveys of public lands in the United States? A I am. Mr. Blackmar. This document which I hold in my hand is entitled, " Manual of Instructions for the Survey of the Public Lands of the United States, Washington, Government Printing Office, 1924", and I desire to offer in evidence pages 212 and 213, Sections 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, and 231, entitled, " Meander-ing". By Mr. Blackmar: Q Mr. Paine, the sectionswhich I have just referred to are the sections under which the public lands are now being meandered? A Yes. Q That is, where they run up against a river or other body of water? A Yes. |