UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

J. A. Krug, Secretary

BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
Fred W. Johnson, Director

Manual of INSTRUCTIONS FOR

THE SURVEY OF THE PUBLIC LANDS

For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office

Washington 25, D. C. Price $2.50 (Buckram)

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THE Superintendent of Documents, United States Government

Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C., has on hand for sale to the public, at the cost of printing, the following publications of the Bureau of Land Management:

Manual of Instructions for the Survey of the Public
Lands of the United States, edition of 1947.

Standard Field Tables (a supplement to the Manual
of Surveying Instructions).

Ephemeris of the Sun, Polaris and Other Selected
Stars, with companion data and tables, published an-
nually in advance (a supplement to the Manual of
Surveying Instructions).

Restoration of Lost or Obliterated Corners and Sub-
division of Sections (a supplement to the Manual of
Surveying Instructions, for the guidance of county and
other local surveyors).

Wall map of the United States, scale 37 miles to 1 inch, and separate maps of the several public-land States, scale 12 miles to 1 inch, showing the developed rectangular surveys.

Map of the United States showing the Principal Meridians and Base Lines, and the areas governed by each.

FIELD NOTES AND PLATS

Copies of the approved field notes and plats of the public-land township surveys, and of the mineral-patent, and the private-landclaim patent-surveys, may be procured from the Bureau of Land Management, Washington 25, D. C., also from the regional and public survey offices, or the appropriate State office, as noted in Secs. 9 and 10 herein. A charge is usually made for making copies of records furnished to the public. Opportunity is afforded for the examination of the records as required by the public, and for making copies or extracts therefrom.

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UNITED STATES

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT

WASHINGTON, August 5, 1947.

The Manual of Instructions for the Survey of the Public Lands of the United States is issued for the guidance of all employees who exercise a technical responsibility in the execution of cadastral surveys or resurveys, including the preparation of the field notes and plats thereof, in any manner relating to the public domain. The Manual of 1947 will supersede all previous instructions or regulations on the technical subjects contained therein.

PENALTY FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF MONUMENTS

Section 57 of the Criminal Code of 1909 (35 Stat. 1088, 1099; 18 U. S. C. sec. 111), provides a penalty for the unauthorized alteration or removal of any Government survey-monument or marked trees, as follows:

"Whoever shall willfully destroy, deface, change, or remove to another place any section corner, quartersection corner, or meander post, on any Government line of survey, or shall willfully cut down any witness tree or any tree blazed to mark the line of a Government survey, or shall willfully deface, change, or remove any monument or bench mark of any Government survey, shall be fined not more than $250, or imprisoned not more than six months, or both."

TEXTUAL AND TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS

All readers of this Manual are requested to report any errors which may be found herein, addressing the Bureau of Land Management, Washington 25, D. C.