Land survey miscellaneous records, 1831-1994.

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Land survey miscellaneous records, 1831-1994.

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Assorted records documenting activities involving various aspects of the land survey, including materials on surveying of islands and the state's western and northern boundaries; resurveying; projects to microfiche, 1972-1981, and electronically image, 1990-1994, the land survey field notes; U. S. Department of Interior letters and opinions, 1908-1911; lists of deputy surveyors, 1981; procedures for government land office surveyors, 1983; and land area by townships, 1950. Also two Bibles, 1831, 1845, used to administer the official oaths to the public land surveyors.

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