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be approved by the Chief Surveyor of the district,
by writing the word "Approved" above his signa-
ture, and it is to be sent to the Native Land Court
when the case is advertised.

48. Original plans of blocks which have been
    approved by the Chief Surveyor must not have
    further survey work or detail of a permanent
    character added to them. Subdivisions of such
    original blocks as ordered by the Native Land
    Court, or made at the instance of the owners of the
    land, must be on separate maps.

Roads and Road Rights.

49. All plans to be certified to under the Public
    Works Acts, and plans of roads taken in exercise of
    road rights shall be made in accordance with the
    following regulations:—

50. The traverse of the survey should be con-
    nected at intervals not greater than two and a
    half miles to the trigonometrical stations of the
    district, as well as to the corners of the sections
    or properties through which the road passes. The
    regulations for ordinary road surveys, already pre-
    scribed, will equally apply in these cases.

51. Where no triangulation exists the traverse
    should be chained and observed twice, and, if
    possible, connected at, say, three-mile intervals to
    some permanent topographical feature outside the
    line of formation, at which place a peg should be
    placed and lockspitted.

52. The lengths of the sides of the area proposed
    to be taken for the work should be given for each
    property, as well as its true position in the pro-
    perty.

53. The traverse should generally commence at
    the same end, and the pegs should be numbered in
    the same direction as that of the engineering traverse,
    if any, and should be plotted upon sheets of regu-
    lation size, to a scale of 10 chains to an inch, or to
    such larger scale as will allow of all necessary de-
    tail being shown. In the case of railway surveys,
    the uniform scale of 3 chains to an inch is to be
    used, and the work plotted the length of the sheet,
    irrespective of the north point, and each sheet
    should not contain more than one mile.

54. The names of the present owners of pro-
    perties, the numbers of sections or subdivisions,
    blocks, &c., should be written on each, wherever
    they can be ascertained; also the area of land taken
    for the work from each property or separate hold-
    ing.

55. The ground-marking, pegging, &c., should be
    done generally as directed in a previous part of
    these instructions.

56. Maps should be drawn on mounted paper
    to the sizes and in the colours hereinbefore pre-
    scribed for working-plans. Boundaries of road dis-
    tricts should be edged in light colour, and the
    name printed in same colour, every district having
    different shades or colours. Lands to be taken
    are to be coloured in different shades or colours
    for each adjoining property; roads to be closed to
    be coloured green. Maps are to be in duplicate,
    or one copy on mounted tracing-cloth. The plan
    is to be certified as correct by the surveyor who
    made the survey, and also by the Chief Surveyor
    of the district in which the land lies. In roads
    taken under authority of the Governor's warrant,
    a certificate is to be written on the plan in the
    form marked H in the schedule hereto.

57. An accurate schedule of the land proposed to
    be taken from each property must be furnished with
    the plan in the form marked F in the schedule
    hereto, which must be certified as above.

Contract Survey.

58. No surveyor can be considered qualified to be
    a contractor unless he is an authorised surveyor,
    holding a certificate of competency from the Sur-
    veyor-General, or from the Board of Examiners,
    and has had five years' experience in an approved
    system—that is, in any system whose field opera-
    tions are subject to mathematical check.

Office Record.

59. Field-books, working-plans, record maps, and
    documents relating thereto and to titles, are to be
    kept in a fireproof safe.

60. Working plans, whether of meridional circuits,
    major triangulations, minor triangulations, or block
    surveys, are to be drawn on antiquarian paper, cut
    to 30in. square. These are to be laid flat, in folios
    33in. square, which will allow of their sliding in to
    level shelves 34in. square, constructed in a closed
    press, set up in the fireproof safes attached to the
    survey offices. Where there is not room for laying
    flat, folios may be placed upright. The working plans
    of isolated sections, after being compiled on 30in.
    sheets, are also to be kept in portfolios 18in. by 16in.
    Under special instructions, certain classes of plans
    may be kept in drawers without portfolios. All
    these plans should remain unmounted, except
    under special circumstances. The compiled or
    index plans, being unavoidably of large size, should
    be mounted and kept in rolls. The tops and bottoms
    of these maps should have thin laths glued or tacked
    to them, and extra-fastened with copper tacks. An
    index plan of each county in the land district, on a
    scale of 80 chains to the inch, coloured to show
    the tenure, should be found in the chief office of
    each district. These are to be hung in a conve-
    nient place for public access, and are to be mounted
    on rollers.

61. Original plans, block-sheets, and record plans
    are open to surveyors and professional draughts-
    men only, under the supervision of the officer
    having charge of the plans, when not in use by the
    department; but other compiled plans are open to
    the public.

62. The following are the scales to be used in
    surveys:—

Working-plans.

Town sections, or sections
under half an acre .. 2 chains or 1/20 mile to an inch.
Suburban sections .. 5 " 1/8 "
Rural sections .. .. 10 " 1/4 "
Minor triangulations .. 40 " 1/2 "
Topographical .. .. 40 " 1/2 "
Meridional circuit .. 320 " 4 "
Reconnaissance and major
triangulation .. 160 " 2 "
Index maps .. 80 " 1 "

Copied or Compiled Plans.

Town or village selection maps .. 5 or 10 chains to an inch
Town or village Crown-grant record
maps .. 2 "
Rural selection maps (after survey) 10 "
" (before survey) 40 "
Crown-grant record maps (rural).. 20 "
Territorial maps .. 4 or 10 miles to an inch.

Extreme Areas contained in Plans.

Working-plans of town sections .. 7/10 mile square.
" rural sections .. 3 1/8 miles "
" minor triangulations .. 12 1/2 "
" topographical .. 12 1/2 "
" reconnaissance and
major triangulations 60 "
" meridional circuit .. 120 "

The above are suitable for keeping in the fire-
proof safes.

Wall-maps may be of any size and scale.

63. With a view to the systematic record of all
    transactions of the Land Transfer Branch, and of
    surveys executed under the Public Works or other