Help school an LSIT here fellas. I'm in Washington. It's clear to me what original surveyor means in the context of platted subdivisions including the GLO township subdivisions. Beyond that, it's a little hazy. When a property is an aliquot part or metes & bounds within a section, how can one say whether or not a found monument at one of its corners is an 'original' one that should be accepted if there's no record of when or by whom it was set? But the alternative is to base everything off one's measurements of the section, and since that is never going to be the exact same that just leads to pincushion hell and conflicts between neighbors, no? What is the answer here; what am I missing?
I know the way the guy I work for wants it done and that's what I'm going to do while I'm here, but I'm curious what others out there have to say.