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Congress created what are our lands and water bodies by several different survey statutes from 1785 to 1832. This creation is known as the Public Land Survey System. It determined our land acreages to the 100th decimal of each fraction of a section, whole section and township. For every meandered water body, acreage was excluded…

43 USC 751, Eighth. These field books shall be returned to the Secretary of the Interior who shall also cause a fair plat to be made of the townships and fractional parts of townships contained in the lands, describing the subdivisions thereof, and the marks of the corners. This plat shall be recorded in books…

Michigan Assessors Manual, Volume 3, Michigan Tax Commission, published February 2018, Pages 19-20, correctly maintains the following: “The General Land Office (G.L.O.) survey township maps continue to be the authority for determining the size, shape and even the existence of each section, Page 19. All navigable bodies of water were meandered in the public land survey system…