1 38 On Land Surveys in the United States. 



3d. He shall be allowed a stated salary, and this salary to be ample, 

 but not extravagant. 



4th. It shall be his duty to superintend generally the surveys of 

 the state. He shall be provided with instruments suitable to the 

 purpose, and constructed on the most approved plan ; he shall be 

 competent to determine with the greatest practicable degree of accu- 

 racy the latitude and longitude of places ; he shall establish meridians 

 in each county of the state j he shall likewise possess a general knowl- 

 edge of most of the natural sciences, particularly Geology, Min- 

 eralogy ,and Botany,* and shall receive and retain such plans and re- 

 ports of surveys, as may be delivered into his possession. He shall 

 also execute in person the tracing and location of all state and county 

 lines, and of all lines of communication uniting in their range two or 

 more counties, and shall attend to the compilation of such plans and 

 reports of surveys as may be made in the several counties, and shall 

 form them as often as necessary into one general and accurate map, 

 to be constantly preserved in some convenient place for reference. 

 It shall be his duty likewise to examine at stated times such instru- 

 ments as are used by his assistants or deputies, &,c, and ascertain if 

 they are in perfect order, and of a kind corresponding to the most 

 approved standard. 



5th. One assistant or Deputy surveyor to be appointed for each 

 county. Each candidate for this station of Deputy surveyor to be 

 recommended or nominated by the surveyor general, and his appoint- 

 ment to be sanctioned by the governor and senate, or governor and 

 council. The office to be held for the term of (say) four or six years. 

 The deputies to be provided by the state with such instruments as the 

 surveyor general shall approve and to receive a certain amount per 

 diem for their services, to be paid by the person or persons under 

 whose order or request the survey shall be made. 



6th. The Deputy Surveyors to be called upon, and it shall be 

 their duty to attend to the making of surveys, estimates, plans and 

 descriptions in writing of all lands the titles of which shall be trans- 

 ferred or in any wise changed, and likewise for all lands placed under 

 lease, the terms of which either by express limitation or by possible 

 contingencies may exceed twelve or fifteen years, and these conditions 

 to be made as important to the validity of any such transfer, change 

 or lease as any other condition required in law. 



* If qualified to make observations also ia Meteorology and Agriculture, it will 

 greatly increase his usefulness. 



