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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Portion of Original Allotment or Section.
12. Where the land forms a part of two or more
original allotments or sections, the boundaries of
such allotments or sections must be shown by a
distinguishing colour.

Adjoining Proprietors.
13. The sectional or allotment numbers, with the
names of the owners or occupiers of adjoining lands,
whenever obtainable, should be written on the plan,
and inquiries, if necessary, must be made for that
purpose, by the Surveyor. Names of adjoining pro-
prietors may be dispensed with in surveys for sub-
divisional purposes, under section 107 of the Land
Transfer Act.

Boundary Wall or Fence.
14. If a boundary is a wall it must be shown
whether it is a party-wall, and whether the line runs
through the centre or otherwise. The true position
of all boundary fences must be shown, and the nature
of the boundary of the land, whether wall, house,
fence, ditch, hedge, stream, road, or undefined, should
be stated.

Detail of Plan.
15. Every plan must exhibit, distinctly delineated,
all roads, streets, passages, thoroughfares, squares, or
reserves, appropriated or set apart for public use,
and also show all allotments into which the said land
may be divided, marked with distinct numbers.
The nature of the boundary, viz., roads, reserves,
sections, natural features, &c., should be shown.
All measurements must be given in links.

Description.
16. An accurate description of the boundaries of
the land must be furnished with each plan.

Distinctive Colours.
17. Roads and streets to be coloured with burnt
sienna; rights-of-way, crimson lake; edge of land
to be dealt with, green; water, prussian blue. Where
natural features, such as terraces, are shown as the
boundary of an allotment or section, they should be
coloured with sepia.

Field Books.
18. If required, the Licensed Surveyor must pro-
duce his actual field-book, for the inspection of the
officer checking his work.

Difference in Measurements.
19. The actual measurements made in the field
must be given, notwithstanding that they may not
agree with the Crown grant or public map, and,
should the difference be material, the measured dis-
tance and bearing to the next adjacent Crown grant
boundary is to be furnished, in order to determine
whether there is any real encroachment, or whether
the differences arise from former defective surveys.
The license of any Surveyor will be cancelled if it is
found that the measurements or bearings, certified by
him as correct, differ materially from those which
exist on the ground. And, in dealing with this sub-
ject, the Surveyor must adhere to the principle of
the unchangeableness of original lines and corners
established by Government or other duly autho-
rized Surveyors done in good faith: in other words-
where the lines and corners are originally established
on the ground by a proper officer, in pursuance of
the survey system ordered by the law of the time,
they must be regarded as the true lines and corners
which they represent, even if subsequent surveys
indicate that the posts, pegs, or marks are out of
line and that the corners are out of position, accord-
ing to the original description thereof.

Chief Surveyors.
20. When a survey, made under the Land

Transfer Acts, differs materially from the Crown
grant or public map, the Chief Surveyor, before
altering or rectifying the records of his department
to enable a correct certificate of title to be issued,
will, if he deem it necessary, require a verifying sur-
vey to be made by another Surveyor, to be approved
of by him, to determine the correctness or otherwise
of the deposited or of the original survey.

Declaration.
21. Declaration to be made on the margin of the
larger, and on the margin or back of the smaller
plans.

Pegging off Surveys; and Old Marks.
22. All surveys under the Land Transfer Act
to be substantially pegged on the ground, such pegs
to be not less than 3 in. by 2 in. scantling of the
heart of totara, kowhai, blue gum, kauri, or matai
(black pine), not less than 18 inches long, to be
driven 15 inches into the ground, the hole having
first been driven by an iron jumper; the pegs to be
branded with the allotment number, with not less
than 1-inch figures branded one-eighth of an inch
into the wood. At frontage pegs of rural and
suburban lands, when practicable, trenches at least
2 feet long, 9 inches deep, 9 inches wide, and not
less than 2 feet therefrom, to be cut in direction of
boundary lines.
The position of the pegs to be shown on the plan
by a red circle; old pegs, when found, by a black
circle; the position of lockspits or other original
marks to be shown on plans if necessary. In all
cases in which lands are subdivided for townships
exceeding 20 chains square, at least four iron pegs,
not less than 1 inch square and 18 inches long,
reciprocally visible from one another, should be
driven in the street 25 links off the section lines, to
which reference may be made in cases of dispute.
Where the boundaries on the ground differ materially
from the Crown grant boundaries, such Crown grant
boundaries to be shown by dotted black lines.

Prior Surveys.
23. These regulations shall not affect any survey,
the measurements or plan of which shall have been
made prior to the date of the issue of these regu-
lations, but shall, from and after that date, supersede
all instructions previously issued in respect of the
matters to which these regulations extend.

Form of Declaration by Licensed Surveyor.
24. The following is the form of declaration under
section 107 of the Land Transfer Act:-
I [Name in full], of
, a Surveyor duly
licensed under "The Land Transfer Act 1870
Amendment Act, 1871," do solemnly and sincerely
declare and certify that the parcels of land hereon
delineated have been surveyed and pegged on the
ground and plotted, in accordance with the instruc-
tions issued by the Surveyor-General for the guidance
of Surveyors under the Land Transfer Acts, and
that this map is in all respects accurate.
And I make this solemn declaration, &c.

25. The following is the form of declaration under
    section 108 :-
    In the matter of an application by A.B., of
    to bring under the provisions of "The Land
    Transfer Act, 1870." [Here refer to number of
    section or block and district, with sufficient de-
    scription to identify land with that in application.]
    I,
    , of
    , a Surveyor duly licensed
    under the provisions of "The Land Transfer Act,
    1870," do solemnly and sincerely declare that I have