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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 77

scale, name of surveyor, date of survey, and number of field-book, must be written upon the map. The interior-detail writing should be clear and distinct, and as far as possible should be legible from the foot of the plan. The plan should be surrounded with a neat, plain, rectangular border, and be signed and certified, when required, by the surveyor who executed the work.

Plans: Size and scale.

69. The dimensions of plans and the scales to be used in connection with surveys under the several Land and Native Acts are set out in Schedule A of the Appendix hereto.

Plans, &c., Government property.

70. All plans and field-books deposited with any Chief Surveyor or inspecting officer for examination become the property of the Government, and their return for alteration, correction, or addition does not give to the person to whom they are returned any right or claim to their retention.

All plans, field-books, tabulations, or other documents returned to surveyors for correction are to be sent back to the Chief Surveyor with all reasonable despatch, and any unnecessary delay in this respect will be reported to the Surveyor-General.

Field-books.

71. Field-books are to be neatly kept and inked in, and must specify the block, section, road, or other particular survey recorded, and from page to page the special boundary, traverse, &c., surveyed. Each day’s work to be dated, and the field-book must be indexed to clearly indicate the page where the field-notes of each section, &c., are to be found, and be signed by the surveyor.

Duly numbered field-books when issued from the District Survey Office must be returned to the office when filled. The number of book is to be entered on each plan when sending it to the office.

72. Surveyors cannot be too careful in recording their field-notes, as they are of more value as evidence than the original plan. The notes should be full and clear, so entered that any one may plot from them, and must distinctly show the back and forward bearings at each station; the initial and all check bearings must be clearly given, and the discrepancy or close in each case, with the correction applied to the observed traverse bearings, the actual measurements made, the inclination, and the reduced final distances. Connections with other lines, pegs (old and new), are to be recorded, and also the comparison of bearings and measurements therewith. The fullest information is to be given in a separate part of the field-book (if necessary) as to the character of the country, the nature of the soil, vegetation, and all natural and artificial features. The method of keeping field-notes required by the Department should be adhered to.

73. It is to be understood that all field-books and maps in the hands of any official or contract surveyor are the property of the Government. When considered necessary by the Chief Surveyor, field-books will be issued by the Lands and Survey Department for any surveys requiring departmental approval, and in each case these must be handed in by the surveyor with the plan, and at his request be reissued to him until filled up, subject to the right of the Chief Surveyor to call for its production at any time. When the field-book is completed it must be returned to the Chief Surveyor for record and custody, and be available for inspection and reference. The number of the field-book and of the respective pages must be shown in the proper column of the tabulated traverse reductions, and should also be noted on the plan against each traverse, &c. The whole of the contents of the field-book should be plotted before it is returned to be filed for reference.

Traverse reductions.

74. The traverse reductions should be computed and tabulated as the work progresses, as provided in Regulation No. 49, so that the inspecting surveyor may check the work at any time. Each traverse must be closed and the results recorded upon the forms in full detail, each sheet being headed and noted to indicate plainly the survey and particular part thereof represented, and be signed and dated by the surveyor.