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The Civil-Engineer & Surveyor's Manual: Comprising Surveying, Engineering ... Michael Mcdermott No preview available - 2017 |
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9 DEPARTURE abscissa acid acres altitude alumina ammonia antimony aqua regia azimuth base bearing boundary carbonate Centimetres centre chains chloride circle circumferentor clay color Comp copper cosine cubic feet DEGREES dilute Disch'ge Hgt dist divided east equal Equation Example formula Frustrum given gives grains greatest azimuth hour angle hydrochloric acid inches diameter insol iron land latus rectum length lime limestone litres longitude magnesia marked meridian metres miles multiplied nitric acid north and south ordinate orifice oxide parallel perpendicular Polaris Potash potassa prec precipitate quarter section corner radius right ascension river road sand segment side silica sine slopes soda soil soluble solution specific gravity square station stone survey surveyor tabular tangent Theodolite thick township triangle velocity wall
Popular passages
Page 72-10 - ... one person being in fault will not dispense with another's using ordinary care for himself Two things must concur to support this action. An obstruction in the road by the fault of the defendant, and no want of ordinary care to avoid it on the part of the plaintiff.
Page 73 - ... bounded on the northern and western lines of such townships shall be sold as containing only the quantity expressed in the returns and plats, respectively, and all others as containing the complete legal quantity.
Page 97 - All the corners marked in the surveys returned by the Surveyor General, or by the surveyor of the land south of the state of Tennessee respectively, shall be established as the proper corners of sections, or subdivisions of sections, which they were intended to designate...
Page 97 - Kentucky river," were subdivided by running through the townships parallel lines each way, at the end of every two miles, and by marking a corner on each of the said lines, at the end of every mile; to be subdivided into sections by running straight...
Page 96 - ... original survey, as shown on the plan and fieldnotes thereof, of record in the office of the Commissioner of Crown Lands of this Province...
Page 98 - The boundary lines. actually run and marked in the surveys returned by the surveyor-general, shall be established as the proper boundary lines of the sections, or subdivisions, for which they were intended, and the length of such lines, as returned, shall be held and considered as the true length thereof.
Page 73 - And in all cases where the exterior lines of the townships thus to be subdivided into sections or half sections, shall exceed, or shall not extend six miles, the excess or deficiency shall be specially noted, and added to or deducted from the western or northern ranges of sections or half sections in such township, according as the error may be in running the lines from east to west, or from south to north...
Page 50 - CF was measured, not in the direction DC, equal to 200 yards, and from D a distance DE equal to 200 yards, and the following angles taken, C AFC = 83° 00', BDE = 54° 30', viz., \ACD- 53° 30', BDC = 156° 25', [ACF= 54° 31', BED = 88° 30'.
Page 97 - An act providing for the sale of the lands of the United States in the territory northwest of the river Ohio, and above the mouth of the Kentucky river...
Page 98 - ... shall be ascertained by running straight lines from the established corners to the opposite corresponding corners; but in those portions of the fractional townships where no such opposite corresponding corners have been or can be fixed, the...