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date, so that no actual measurements get in advance of this mode
of check. (See Appendix 4.)

Tabulations.

50. The positions of all chained lines (excepting to range-pegs),
    all corners of blocks or of isolated sections (whether chained or
    not), and all intersections of section-boundaries with traverses, are
    also to be calculated and tabulated, and all tabulations of any
    survey must accompany the map of such survey. When initial
    values are adopted from former surveys, references to volumes and
    folios of tabulations must be given on the traverse sheet.

Prior claims.

51. All adjacent or included prior claims and surveys and their
    boundaries are to be investigated, and, if necessary, redefined in
    accordance with the titles and original plans. These claims are to
    be surveyed as held by established or indicated marks on the
    ground, and must be shown on the map by black lines if the
    boundaries disagree with recorded measurements based on original
    plans and descriptions. If owners of prior claims cannot be found,
    and if the marks of their claims are obliterated, then it will be
    competent for the surveyor to re-establish the boundaries by actual
    survey. A general rule is not to interfere with original boundaries, but, the surveyor being in doubt, the matter must be referred
    to the Chief Surveyor for decision.

Isolated sections.

52. In surveying an isolated section or claim, the surveyor
    must proceed to the nearest geodetical or trigonometrical station,
    or to other properly established survey point, and connect his
    section-work by minor triangulation or traverse with such other
    station or point, and prepare a plan of the section and its connections on special sheets provided for that purpose.

TOWN SURVEYS.

Standard marks.

53. The main streets in all towns, whether on Crown lands or
    private lands, unless otherwise authorised, are to be laid out of
    a breadth not less than 150 links, and side streets not less than
    100 links wide. In grass country the sides of the main-street lines
    are to be pared; in fern and bush, cut. In addition to the pegs
    at the corners of every section, stone or concrete blocks, or iron
    trig. tubes, all provided with fine centre marks, shall be placed at
    intersection of streets about 25 links from and parallel to the
    building-lines, and so that those adjacent shall be visible from each
    other. On these standard lines the angular and lineal measurements of the town are to be based.

Limit of error.

54. The maximum error in lineal measurements must not exceed
    1 link per mile, and in all measurements, corrections for tension,
    sag, temperature, &c., should be made.

Streets to be at right angles.

55. The streets of all towns are to be laid off in straight lines,
    and at right angles to each other as nearly as a due regard to the
    natural features of the country and drainage of the land will permit, and allotments are to be laid off wherever practicable at right
    angles to the streets which they front.

Approval of Governor necessary.

56. In every case where any allotments or sections or blocks of
    land are to be sold or advertised for sale as a town, the proposed
    name of such town, whether public or private, together with a plan
    of such town showing the streets and the width thereof respectively
    and the reserves made in such town to be prepared by a licensed
    surveyor, must be approved of by the Governor prior to sale.

“Town,” as defined by the Land Act, means “any parcel of
land outside a borough divided into areas for building purposes.”
Sections of over 1 acre should not be included.

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