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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 77

OFFICE RECORD.

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

13. Working-plans, whether of meridional circuits, major triangulations, minor triangulations, or block surveys are to be drawn on antiquarian paper, cut to 30 in. square. These are to be laid flat in drawers in a close press set up in the fireproof strong-room attached to the Survey Office, or where such are not provided, then in portfolios 33 in. square to lie on shelves 34 in. square in place of drawers.

14. 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.

15. An index plan of each county in the land district, on a scale of 80 chains to an inch, coloured to show the tenure and mounted on rollers, should be exhibited in the chief office of each district, and hung in a convenient place for public access.

16. In order to make the county maps in the Head Office as complete as possible, a tracing showing alterations, subdivisions, roads and road deviations, and new surveys made during each month must be forwarded by the Chief Surveyor with his monthly report.

17. Original plans, block-sheets, and record plans are open to surveyors and professional draughtsmen 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.

18. The following are the scales to be used in plans of surveys:—

Working-plans.

Town sections, or sections under half an acre .. 1 to 2 chains to an inch.
Suburban sections .. .. .. .. 3 to 5 "
Rural sections .. .. .. .. 10 "
Minor triangulations .. .. .. .. 40 "
Topographical .. .. .. .. 40 "
Meridional circuit .. .. .. .. 320 "
Reconnaissance and major triangulation .. .. 160 "
Index maps .. .. .. .. 80 "

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 16 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 " "

19. Wall-maps may be of any size and scale.

20. 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 Acts, record maps on the same scales as for original surveys—namely, 20 chains to an inch for rural lands, and 1 or 2 chains to an inch for town lands—are to be prepared, on which all road-lines, subdivisions, and other details surveyed since the issue of the Crown grant, under the Land Transfer Act, Public Works Acts, the Land Act, Native Land Acts, or any other proper authority, should be recorded.

21. Computation books should be of one size, so as to fit the shelves in the safe. The size should be a little above the ordinary foolscap, and the books should be numbered, paged, and the contents indexed, for easy reference.

MAP PUBLICATIONS.

22. Plans of towns may be reduced to any convenient scale. Plans of rural and suburban block or section surveys will be reduced to a scale of 20 chains or 40 chains to an inch, as the area of the sections is small or great. Plans of survey districts are to be compiled to a scale of 40 chains to an inch, for reduction by photography to a scale of 80 chains to an inch.