What is the right way to do the wrong thing?

nate-the-surveyor · 2012-07-20T12:40:25Z

This is a question that has to do with Sectionalized land, in the Public Land Survey System. (PLSS)OK, I have surveyed a whole Section. To make a long story short, the 1/16 corner, that is 1/2 way between the S1/4 cor, and the C-1/4 corner is a Pipe that has been there a long time. It is 10' east, and 25' too far south, of where it should have been set. But, it has been there a long time, and accepted, and used. I am going to yield to it. OK. Now, HOW do I establish the C1/4? do I use the S Center 1/16 to tweek the C1/4 East?This is the solution that I TEND towards:Or do I run from the S1/4 corner, 1/4 mi north, Yield to the Existing pipe, then angle back to the C1/4 established by BB int, via the Connecting 1/4 corners?And this is why I lean that way:The general theory is that the whole section is a Protracted Subdivision. With a legal structure, whereby ALL the interior 1/16 corners were ESTABLISHED by the GLO, in 1840, during the original survey. Thank you for your time. Nate

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I don't see anything about a 1834 Land act, but instead the Act of Feb 1805 which set the c4 as the BB intersect. But, I did find the information on Mr Justin Butterfield and his un-authorized instructions of 1849-1851.

Here is a nice pdf discussing this very issue:

Dual Center of Sections

If it can be shown that during some years that these instructions were followed, and that the corner was set by them, it may be the legal c4.

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