From state government to licensed surveyors: “Stuff your backpacks full of traverse (meander) tools to make boundary lines and, get out in the field! Make more and more of them.…
Read MoreI am a “public land survey attorney” or, in other words, a “federal boundary” attorney. This survey of all of the lands, waters and other boundaries by the original federal…
Read MoreCongress 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…
Read More43 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…
Read MoreMichigan 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…
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