Excerpt from Manual of Surveying Instructions for the Survey of the Public Lands of the United States and Private Land Claims: June 30, 1894 The following instructions, including full and minute directions for the execution of surveys in the field, are issued under the authority given me by sections 453, 456, and 2398, United States Revised Stat utes, and must be strictly complied with by yourselves, your office assistants, and deputy surveyors. All directions in conflict with these instructions are hereby abrogated. In all official communications, this edition will be known and referred to as the Manual of 1894. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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