@holy-cow?ÿ This sounds like good practice, provided there are publicly available records explaining what was done.?ÿ

@rj-schneider?ÿ The only authority that is required is a land surveyors license. Authority to survey doesn't depend on money changing hands from one ...

@chris-bouffard?ÿ The "easy" in my comment was tounge in cheek. My point was that you have one less thing you need to learn. All boundary surveyors e...

Just make sure there is a permanent publicly accessible record documenting what you did.

@chris-bouffard?ÿ Yes I have located British, French, Mexican?ÿ and Spanish grants. Both in PLSS states and Colonial States, and in four different co...

@chris-bouffard?ÿ Which means you have it easy. In the PLSS states we need to be proficient in both.

@bill93?ÿ It was set as a closing corner, so it was intended to only be used for bearing.

@bill93?ÿ Bil there should be no zig zaging unless there are intermediate controlling corners on the standard parallel, the NW and NE corners of 5 ar...

@holy-cow?ÿ Or under someone under your supervision, or hired because of the relationship, or hired for political reasosns...

@fairbanksls?ÿ It certainly happens less in American goverment than it does in private companies. We have rules against that...

@bill93?ÿ That's just it, we don't have enough information. Is that monument intended to be the section corner or is it just a closing corner? It's e...

This isn't the answer that the professor was looking for, but many of these questions can not be answered without the field notes for both townships. ...

@mike-marks?ÿ Not a good situation there, but I hope you didn't blame the clerk. He isn't a surveyor and can't be expected to understand the importan...

@jitterboogie?ÿ Saying you are understaffed or can't fund time is malfeasance only if it's not true. When laws are passed giving someone the responsi...

@dmyhill?ÿ I like this one. Of course as with any recording law or minimum?ÿ standard regulation prosecuting a failure to follow it can be difficult....

@jim-in-az?ÿ Only if you happen to be re surveying the butchered surveys, or legal descriptions. There are plenty of screw ups in Alaska, but I didn...

@williwaw?ÿ This is often true. Nothing makes an otherwise sound?ÿ survey easier to dispute than missing evidence that actually was considered, but r...