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Show Record at your request four manuals containing instructions relating to the surveying of public lands for the years 1881, 1890, 1894 and 1902. The manual bearing date of 1881 was in force until 1890. There was a manual of 1855. The manual of 1881, as I remember it, did not provide for the width of non- navigable waters or streams. The matter was left more of less to the discretion of the surveyor as to whether he should meander a stream or not. So far as published rules in force in the department were concerned, I would say that the provisions with reference to meandering contained in the manual of 1881 were substantially like all prior manuals or rules of operation. It was not until 1890 that there was an designation of width of non- navigable streams that were to be meandered. Defendant't Exhibit No. 13, being sections numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, under the head of " Meandering", page 33 to 35, of " Instructions to Surveyors - General, for the year 1881", was received in evidence. The sheets comprising complainant's Exhibit No. 607 all show meanderings on different parts of the Green River. The first sheet shows meanderings of the Green River under survey 4140 made in November or December, 1881. The data appearing at the below the map itself on each sheet, is descriptive of the surveys, and by whom made, and the date of the contract, and authority under which they were executed, together with the date of approval of the survey by the Surveyor General. Complainant's Exhibit No. 606 contains sheets giving like information to those of complainant's Exhibit No. 607, except the sheets contained in Exhibit 606 relate to the Grand River, that is, those portions of the Colorado River above the mouth of the Green River and the dates of meandering, dates of the contract for surveys, dates of surveys and approvals appear on the respective sheets comprising the exhibit. William Glen Hoyt, recalled, and testified for complain- 4142 ant on direct examination as follows: 594 |
