THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 211

to be Receiver of Land Revenue for the Provincial
District of Taranaki, vice John Barleyman, Esq,
resigned.

G. S. WHITMORE,
(for the Minister of Lands.)

Regulations for Surveyors under the Land Transfer
Acts.

General Survey Department,
Wellington, 12th February, 1879.

THE following regulations for the guidance of
Surveyors, licensed under the Land Transfer
Acts, are published for general information.

J. T. FISHER,
(for the Minister of Lands).

REGULATIONS FOR THE GUIDANCE OF LICENSED
SURVEYORS UNDER THE LAND TRANSFER ACTS.

Surveyor.

1. Any plan purporting to be a survey, resurvey,
   or subdivision of any land, is to be signed by the
   Surveyor who actually made the measurements in
   the field, and shall also be verified by statutory declara-
   tion of the licensed Surveyor employed to make
   such survey. Such declaration to be in such one of
   the forms appended as may be appropriate.

2. The necessity for the greatest practical accuracy
   cannot be too strongly impressed upon Surveyors.
   In many instances no means will exist by which their
   errors can be detected by the department. This will
   make it the more necessary to watch those cases in
   which errors can be tested; and if their discovery
   should show that the work of any Surveyor cannot be
   implicitly relied on, it will become an imperative duty
   to revoke his license.

3. The Surveyor will be expected to disclose all
   doubts, discrepancies, and difficulties, and to afford
   all such other information obtainable by him, relating
   to the property and the application for Certificate of
   Title or Transfer, as will aid in insuring accuracy and
   completeness in the business of the Land Transfer
   Department. In these matters he will consider him-
   self rather an agent and adviser of the Government
   than of the person incidentally employing him; nor
   will a regard to the interests of such employer be
   considered as excusing in any degree the withholding
   of any information affecting the merits of the ap-
   plication, even though the description supplied may
   be literally and technically correct.

Trigonometrical Connections, &c.

4. In districts where triangulation exists, and
   where the triangulation points have not been ob-
   literated, if a resurvey or subdivision of the whole
   of a rural section is made for the purposes of the
   Land Transfer Act, the survey must be connected
   by traverse or by a subsidiary triangle with the
   nearest trigonometrical station. If only a portion
   of a section is being dealt with, this will not be
   required, but the survey must be connected with
   at least two of the corners of the original sec-
   tion. If only part of an allotment on an already
   deposited plan is being dealt with, then such survey
   need only be connected with two or more points of
   that allotment, provided always that the allotment
   has been previously properly connected with two or
   more points of the original section in such a manner
   as to definitely fix the position thereof. In towns
   and cities where permanent bench-marks have been
   placed, then the survey must be connected both by
   angular and linear measurement with such bench-
   marks.

Measurements and Bearings.

5. All measured lines and distances must be shown
   in red, all observed bearings in blue, all calculated
   bearings or distances in black, the same being written
   along the lines. Included angles will only be ad-
   missible in such districts where minor triangulation
   does not exist, or where the original stations have
   been lost, and where the standard points for obtain-
   ing the meridian have not been re-established, or in
   the subdivision of small allotments.

Tie-lines in lieu of angles will only be admissible
in the subdivision of very small pieces of land.

The true meridian bearing between two or more
trigonometrical stations will always be obtained by
reference to the survey office of the provincial dis-
trict.

Irregular Boundaries.

6. Where the boundary consists of natural fea-
   tures they must be traversed, unless they form the
   boundary of the original section and have been
   traversed by the Government Surveyor. A re-
   traverse of such boundaries may, however, be re-
   quired in cases where the original survey appears to
   be faulty.

Where an irregular boundary is defined by offsets
measured thereto from one or more survey lines, the
Surveyor must furnish the distance along such line
or lines at which offsets have been taken and the
length of such offsets.

Should a property be bounded on one or more sides
by natural features of which a retraverse is not
required, the survey must be closed by traverse-lines
or tie-lines in such a manner as will enable the
work to be thoroughly checked by the draughtsman.

Reduction of Traverses.

7. All traverse-lines to be mathematically reduced
   on the meridian and perpendicular of the nearest
   trigonometrical station, or, if that is not required to
   be connected with in the survey, on the starting or
   initial point of the survey. Traverse forms can be
   had at the Survey Offices, price 6d. per dozen.

Maximum Error.

8. In the subdivision of small areas or town lands
   4 links to the mile will be the maximum error allowed,
   and in the case of the survey of rural land 8 links to
   the mile; bearings must close to two or three
   minutes, according to the nature of the survey.

Instruments and Chains.

9. All bearings must be observed with a service-
   able and adjusted theodolite; the chain must be
   tested, and corrected before survey to the Govern-
   ment standard.

Size of Plan.

10. Deposited plans, if not indorsed on an appli-
    cation or instrument, must be either on antiquarian
    or mounted drawing paper 30 inches by 30 inches,
    20 inches by 20 inches, or 10 inches by 15 inches,
    cut so that due North is perpendicular to the paper,
    which must be the exact size named to fit the office
    portfolios.

For the smaller sizes protracting sheets can be
obtained at the Survey Office of the provincial dis-
trict, price 9s. per dozen. Plan to accompany appli-
cation, transfer, lease, or mortgage when not drawn
on the form, to be 15 inches by 10 inches.

Scale of Plan.

11. Plans of allotments containing 1 to 10 perches,
    chain to 1 inch; 10 to 20 perches, 1 chain to 1
    inch; 20 perches to 1 acre, 2 chains to 1 inch; 1
    acre to 10 acres, 5 chains to 1 inch; 10 acres to 320
    acres, 10 chains to 1 inch; 320 acres and above, 20
    chains to 1 inch.