TA (Land Status Records) Tentative Approval. See TREATY OF GUADALUPE HIDALGO. Immigrants had to prove that they had husbands or fathers who were U.S. citizens in order not to be deported. In modern law, the State is deemed to occupy the place and hold the rights of the feudal lord. Over the years, many of the tract books became worn and mutilated making status difficult to determine. See BEARING, BACK BEARING, GEODETIC AZIMUTH and GRID AZIMUTH. DISTANCE, PARENTHETICAL See PARENTHETICAL DISTANCE. MOD (Land Status Records) Modification. (43 U.S.C. During the war, the post was commanded by Colonel George K. McGunnegle, who reached the mandatory retirement age of 64 in 1918 but remained on duty until the end of the war. DANGER ZONE In regard to the rectangular limits of township boundaries, the danger zone is placed at theoretical bearings exceeding 14 minutes of arc from cardinal. The east-west line at the north of The Seven Ranges is named The Geographers Line in his honor. LEASE MAP Former name for the Outer Continental Shelf Official Protraction Diagrams. Now called State Director. STATUS DIAGRAM A diagram prepared from a Master Title Plat and Historical Index. UNPERFECTED ENTRY See ENTRY UNPERFECTED. The blaze should be just long enough to allow the markings to be made. SEC OF AGRI (Land Status Records) Secretary of Agriculture. 452) Colorado August 1, 1876 (18 Stat. 709 and 96% of the DCI-P3 standards, ensuring output for high-definition television and digital cinema matches the colors you have defined. The usage has broadened to include any precise control station. This program is restricted to National Forest Lands and certain, designated, BLM Districts. As part of the bed of navigable waters, such lands belong to the states by right of sovereignty. The correct technical term is Flood Current. TIDELANDS Coastal areas situated above mean low tide and below mean high tide, particularly the areas alternately covered and uncovered by the daily tides. CDI (Land Status Records) Control Document Index. Night travel on the island is prohibited in some areas for reasons of park security and public safety. ; the moves are 6.5 lks. STANDARD In cadastral survey slang, an ordinary steel pocket tape marked in chains or feet. FOUND CORNER An existent corner of the public land surveys which has been recovered by field investigation. Operational/Laboratory/Facility Monitoring Records, Completed MPDES 3560 Compliance Inspection Form. DEPENDENT RESURVEY A retracement and reestablishment of the lines of the original survey in their true original positions according to the best available evidence of the positions of the original corners. SL MER (Land Status Records) Salt lake meridian. See RIPARIAN LAW. See MANAGER and REGISTER*. CR MER (Land Status Records) Copper River Meridian. A person is said to die intestate when he dies without leaving a valid will to testify what his wishes were with respect to the disposal of his property after his death. As I have said before, a one-size-fits-all test does not accurately measure student knowledge, Arntzen said. A modification may not be required when replacing like-for-like equipment, or improving the existing treatment methods. MISC (Land Status Records) Miscellaneous. TERM (Land Status Records) Terminate, Termination. LOCATION NOTICE In mining, a public notice of location of a mining claim. SINGLE PROPORTIONATE MEASUREMENT (also called two-way proportion) A method of proportioning measurement in the restoration of a lost corner whose position is determined with reference to alinement in one direction. 506), which provided for the homesteading within National forests of public lands classified and listed as more valuable for agricultural than the forestry purposes. See M and P Factor (below). Just one month before her 20th birthday in 1944, Betty Meyer found herself in an Army recruiting office in downtown Seattle. See REAL PROPERTY. Rights acquired in good faith under the law. STANDARD CORNER A senior corner on a standard parallel or base line. It was, in effect, a cadastral survey. The lighthouse at Point Stuart has been disestablished. BR Bearing rock. The cylinder surface may meet the ellipsoid at the map center or it may cut below the surface (secant) creating two parallels where the scale is exact. This was done to facilitate identification of the line. PEDIS POSSESSIO Actual possession of real property implying actual occupancy or enclosure and use. BARGAIN AND SALE In conveyancing, the transferring of property from one to another, upon valuable consideration, by way of sale. See TRANSIT. A bargain and sale deed usually means one which carries no warranty. See EXCHANGE, PRIVATE EXCHANGE and STATE EXCHANGE. Real property may be claimed by the State where there is no will and/or no competent inheritors can be found. When the suns declination, the latitude of the station and hour angle of the sun are correctly set off on the solar attachment, the instrument on which it is mounted may readily be oriented to the astronomic meridian. Kawasaki Treyx 750 Sport 4x4. In conveyancing, a warranty deed conveys fee title (to the land described) to the grantee and in addition guarantees the grantor will make good the title if it is found wanting. INTPR (Land Status Records) Interpretation. Batture differs from alluvium in that batture is the addition of soil to the bed of a stream or lake, while alluvium is an addition to the shores. ES (Land Status Records) Exchange survey. Hacks are sometimes called notches or, in older surveys, chaps. See BLAZE. PUB. Specifically, in astronomy, geophysics and related sciences (e.g., meteorology), the zenith at a given point is the local vertical direction pointing away from direction of the force of gravity at that location.Thezenithis used in the following scientific contexts: Zeiss Instruments- a company founded byCarl Zeiss(September 11,1816December 3,1888) .Check out their home pagehere. A patent would be issued under normal conditions where a cadastral survey plat shows a description by legal subdivisions. For a notable exception to the swamp-land laws, see ARKANSAS COMPROMISE ACT. PI In highway surveying, Point of Intersection of two tangents. See TANGENT SCREW*. SEAL In law, a particular sign, made to attest in the most formal manner, the execution of a document or instrument. See GEOGRAPHERS LINE, THE; ORDINANCE OF MAY 20, 1785. See BONA FIDE, ERRONEOUS LOCATION.AMERICAN MERIDIAN See WASHINGTON MERIDIAN.ANALYTICAL PHOTOTRIANGULATION A mathematical determination of groundpositions of paneled pointsobserved in a strip or block of aerial photographs. O (Land Status Records) Order. CUT In mining, a surface opening in the ground intersecting a vein. Thismethod, which considers such factors ascamera calibration, film distortion, atmospheric refraction and earthcurvature during computations, produces data ofa higher order of accuracy than that obtained by the mechanicalmethods. 536) Indiana December 11, 1816 (3 Stat. The 1930 and 1947 Manuals of Surveying Instructions called for the use of transparent color overlays to show these features when required. CADASTRAL SURVEY APPROVAL AUTHORITY Prior to becoming an official cadastral survey the field notes must be approved and the plat, field notes and survey must be accepted on behalf of the Director of the Bureau of Land Management by the officer to whom he has delegated this responsibility. 2) A variance or disagreement between what is written in the field notes and what is represented on the plat. All surface rights and everything within the limits of his intralimital rights, except the extralateral rights&nnbsp; attached to other veins apexing in anothers claim, belong to the owner of the claim. LATERAL BOUNDARIES Side boundaries; boundaries between adjacent states extending from shore to their seaward boundaries under Public law 31; boundaries between adjacent nations through the marginal sea and the contiguous zones. PAROL CONTRACT Any contract not of record or under seal. T/S (Land Status Records) Timber and Stone. Surveys of this type frequently require consideration of the question of title prior to the extension of the former surveys. 4 ) The nearshore currents primarily due to wave action, e.g. In mining law, and in popular usage in the Western States, it is synonymous with ledge and vein. See MINERAL SURVEY. 852, 42 U.S.C. 38. SD South Dakota. CURATIVE PATENT See PATENT, CURATIVE. The withdrawal precludes the disposal of the lands except with a mineral reservation clause unless the lands are found, upon examination or by other competent evidence, not to contain a valuable deposit of minerals. RANGE A north-south tier of townships or sections. STATE DIRECTOR (BLM) The principal Bureau official at the State level. See MEDIAN LINE. MINERAL LOCATION AND CONTEST INDEX A component of the land status records; it is a listing by township and range of mineral location notices filed under special mining claim recording laws, abandonments and relinquishments of mining claims secured by the Government, and of actions initiated to determine the validity of mineral, agricultural and other claims on national resource lands. Step 3: Submit a subscriber agreement for each permit to which you are requesting NetDMR production access. The consent of Congress to change a boundary need not be granted by a special act but may be inferred from subsequent legislation. See APPEAL. Repke hopes to be the first Democratic member of the PSC in a decade. Participation is voluntary. Used after a word or passage to indicate that it is meant to be exactly as printed or to indicate that it reproduces an original even if in error as to spelling or usage. 3) The weighted average of the azimuths of an irregular boundary after conversion to an equivalent bearing. See DEPENDENT RESURVEY and RESURVEY. See REGISTER. See BEARING TREE, MOUND AND PITS, LAND MARK, ACCESSORIES, CORNER. The meridian which passes through the original site of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England was adopted in 1884 by a conference of nations as the initial or zero of longitudes. Bicycles can be brought on the ferry or rented seasonally on land and used on the island's main roads. Privacy Policy | 2) A value of area, bearing or distance from the approved field notes. See DEPOSITION.AGREEMENT LINE A concurrence between adjoining land owners on thelocation of their common boundaries.The effect on the location is subject to judicial review.AGRICULTURAL LANDS Land suitable for agricultural purposes. This school year, the Montana OPI launched a pilot program for a new state assessment called the Montana Alternative Student Testing (MAST). It includes the restoration of lost corners in accordance with procedures described in the Manual of Surveying Instructions. QUARTER-SECTION CORNER A corner at an extremity of a boundary of a quarter section. Eucalyptus were removed from 80acres between 1990 and 1997, and nursery-grown native plants were planted in the cleared areas. See COLLATERAL EVIDENCE. 3842.1-2(b)). See FIXED BOUNDARY. Each authorization will include conditions that minimize, to the extent practicable, the magnitude of any change in water quality and the length of time during which any change may occur. REV (Land Status Records) Revocation or Revoked. It requires ample justification such as the showing of gross irregularities. PRORATION Proportionate measurement, division, distribution or adjustment. STOCKRAISING HOMESTEAD ENTRY An entry of public lands, classified as being chiefly valuable for grazing and the growing of forage crops, under the provisions of the Stockraising Homestead Act of December 29, 1916. CLAIMANT An individual, corporation, association, State or local government, etc., asserting title to, or rights in, public lands. Please allow 4-6 weeks to receive exam results in the mail. 2) The method generally used to mathematically close (balance) a figure in order to determine area. Voluntary arbitration is;therefore, by mutual and free consent of theparties.ARBITRATOR A private, disinterested person chosen by the parties to adisputed question for the purpose ofhearing their contention and giving judgment between them. NATIVE TOWNSITE (Alaska) the Act of May 25, 1926, provides for the townsite survey and disposition of public lands set apart or reserved for the benefit of Indian or Eskimo occupants in trustee townsites in Alaska, and for the survey and disposal of the lands occupied as native towns or villages. See REHABILITATE and REMONUMENTATION. Help strenthen the community by linking back to us! HISTORICAL INDEX A chronological summary of all actions which affect, have affected, or will affect the title to, disposition of, or use status of lands and resources within a township. Firefighters ran around from the mainland and helicopters dropped water and fire retardants to protect the historical buildings and extinguish the fire that was fully contained by October 14, 2008 at approximately 7p.m.[40] 380 of the island's 740 acres (300ha) were burned in the fire. RAILROAD INDEMNITY SELECTION A lieu selection, which is made by a railroad, based upon rights to railroad grant lands lost to the railroad within the primary limits, selection being made within the indemnity limits. M&B (Land Status Records) Metes and Bounds. ST. These records together constituted, prior to the beginning of the Records Improvement Program in 1955, the records required in accordance with 43 C.F.R. No. See STARE DECISIS and ADJUDICATION. MD Maryland. A formal or legal document in writing, such as a contract, deed, lease, will, bond or other writing of a formal or solemn character, such as a document given as a means of affording evidence. PUBLIC LAW 31 (MAY 22, 1953 ) See SUBMERGED LANDS ACT. This cession provided the United States with more than 183 million additional acres of public lands. RVST (Land Status Records) Revested. sec. PLACER LAW OF 1897 This law provided that petroleum lands might be entered and patented under the placer mining laws and led, eventually, to the leasing of public lands valuable for minerals. U.S.C.A. 2751). To be a bona fide claim, for example, the discovered mineral deposit must be valuable. TWENTY-FOUR-MILE TRACTS The largest unit in the rectangular system of surveys. UR (Land Status Records) Uranium. TRAVERSE In surveying, a sequence of lengths and directions of lines between points on the earth, obtained by field measurements and used to determine the positions of the points through use of trigonometric computations. MGWPCS permits may also not be applicable for discharges located near state surface waters. HOMESTEAD ENTRY, ORIGINAL An original entry under the homestead laws, also, the first homestead entry which was made by any individual, also, a homestead entry which was made pursuant to the first homestead law, the act of May 20, 1862 (12 Stat. See CONVEYANCE, REAL ESTATE, PROPERTY, REAL PROPERTY and PERSONAL PROPERTY. You can cancel at any time. SOLAR LINE A line run along an astronomic bearing with a solar attachment. BLANK LINE 1) Where bearings and distances are shown, for information purposes only, across areas not then subject to survey. Some suggested focus groups outside of the board and administrators include students, civic clubs, mental health groups, nonprofit leaders and elected officials. See MEDIAL LINE, RULE OF THALWEG, GRADIENT BOUNDARY, RED RIVER CASE. See ORDINARY HIGH WATER and ISLAND*. N.M.P.M. NEB. See FIELD TABLETS and APPROVED SURVEY. 861; and June 15, 1922, 42 Stat. In surveying use, the plane is usually a projection of the earths surface such as a developed cone or cylinder. The U.S. Supreme Court in Iowav. These objects may not be of a character that can be marked, but in the case of a rock cliff or boulder a cross mark and the letters BO will be chiseled into the bearing object. In respect to lengths of lines, the danger zone occurs when adjustments exceed 33 links per mile, as defined in Manual of Surveying Instructions. The two principal systems in use in the United States are the Lambert Conformal Conic map projection and the Transverse Mercator map projection. RIPARIAN BOUNDARIES Water boundaries, or boundaries formed by a river, lake or the sea. REG (Land Status Records) Regional. All such vegetation normally ends at the margin of permanent water. FED Federal. MINERAL EXAMINER An employee of the Bureau of Land Management who, prior to patent, conducts a field examination to determine the validity, under the law, of a mining claim. The term is sometimes used incorrectly to denote two lines established on the ground although the field-note record indicates only one line, thus creating a hiatus or overlap. SEVEN RANGES, THE The first cadastral survey of the public lands of the United States began in July 1786, in the area immediately south of the Geographers Line, in southeastern Ohio. The cone surface may be tangent to the ellipsoid or it may cut below the surface (secant) creating two parallels where the scale is exact. 2) The process of recording observations, making measurements, and marking the boundaries of tracts of lands. CORRECTION LINE See STANDARD PARALLEL. TOPOGRAPHY Collective or individual features both natural and cultural, improvements, significant changes in character of land and relief which are tied to a point on the survey line or are intersected by it. NATIONAL FOREST HOMESTEAD LANDS Public lands in National Forests which were opened to National Forest homestead entry. They are usually written in the third person and, together with the Manual and supportive data, contain the necessary specifications and information for execution of the survey. In those instances where a complicated metes and bounds description is the only description available, a deed may be used to transfer fee simple interest in public lands. On Fridays at the University of Montana, the Carcass Club assembles to help process incoming specimens for the Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum. TITLE 43 Refers to Title 43 (Public lands) of the United States Code (U.S.C. Applied to a street, right of way or any other strip of land of uniform width centerline defines the line midway between the side lines of said strip. These are the only Federal courts where juries are used. STREET Any public thoroughfare (street, avenue, boulevard, or park) or space more than 20 ft wide which has been dedicated or deeded to the public for public use. Under its terms the rectangular system of surveys was inaugurated. It also differs from a resurvey, which is the rerunning and remarking of lines represented in the field notes and on the plat of a previous official survey. The public laws and private laws are printed in separate sections. INTEREST As applied to lands, interest means any direct or indirect ownership in whole or in part of the lands and resources of the lands. REMEASUREMENT A term applied to a survey made for the purpose of verifying or determining distances as opposed to a retracement, which is done to verify or determine both bearings and distances. See THALWEG, MEDIUM FILUM ACQUAE, GRADIENT BOUNDARY and MEDIAL LINE. If no Education, a Competency Assessment must be taken. The Discharge Permit Noncompliance Reporting form must be completed and mailed to the address below within five days of the 24-hour oral report. In instances where they may be required for operational or litigation purposes they will be provided for in the Special Instructions. To an infinite extent;indefinitely.ADIT In mining, an entrance or approach; a horizontal excavation usedas an entrance to a mine, or a vent by whichore or water are removed. PHOTOGRAMMETRY The science or art of obtaining reliable measurements by means of photographs. It must be filed and posted on the ground according to the laws of the state where located. See APPROVED CLEAR LIST, PATENT, DEED, GRANT, and INTESTATE. REC & PP Recreation and Public Purposes. Title to the beds of nonnavigable bodies of water remains in the United States until the shore lands have passed into private ownership. See MINING ACT OF 1866, MINING LAW OF 1872 and PLACER LAW OF 1897. See RESURVEY, DEPENDENT RESURVEY and INDEPENDENT RESURVEY. The state to which by common law a man is entitled, on the death of his wife, in the lands or tenements of which she is seised in possession in fee-simple or in tail during her coverture, provided they have had lawful issue born alive which might be capable of inheriting the estate. Groundwater is also important for irrigation, livestock, and indirectly for thermoelectric power. Ok. Don't bother me again, for this session. Land boundaries are usually defined by ownership, commencing with the earliest owners through successive ownerships and partitions. The Montana Groundwater Pollution Control System (MGWPCS) program issues groundwater discharge permits to owners of potential sources of pollution to state groundwater. See BASELINE. In cadastral survey parlance, the returns are the field notes, report and approved plat of a survey. 2) The method of computing areas using DMDs or DPDs. Also called an Abney Level. It then sets up the defense that the complaint is insufficient in law to sustain his claim or that there is some other defect constituting a legal reason why the opposing party should not be allowed to proceed further. CC Closing Corner. Where the scale error between a geodetic distance and its grid representation exceeds 1 in 10,000 a state was usually divided into two or more zones. See CERTIFICATE OF APPROVAL and CERTIFICATE OF TRANSCRIPT. SI (Land Status Records) Silver. MEDIATION The act of a third person who comes between two opposing parties in order to persuade them to compromise, adjust or settle their dispute. COMPASS RULE See NON RIPARIAN BROKEN BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT. It provided for the entry of public lands if the entryman planted and cultivated trees on a specified part of the land. 371; 43 C.F.R. Heavy bearing is used synonymously. In the Submerged Lands Act, 43 U.S.C. In some States, courts called chancery courts possess general equity powers. See CONTINENTAL SHELF, CONTINENTAL TALUS, SUBMERGED LANDS ACT and OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF LANDS ACT. See SHORE, FORESHORE, BACKSHORE, TIDELANDS. See LAND OFFICE STATUS PLAT, HISTORIC INDEX, MASTER TITLE PLAT and USE PLAT. If a tract falls across a township line it is given a separate number in each township. TP (Land Status Records) Township. The northern boundary became at once a fruitful source of dissension between the two countries. LAND DISTRICT the area administered by a particular land office. See INDEMNITY LANDS; PLACE LANDS; RAILROAD GRANT, ADJUSTED OR UNADJUSTED; RAILROAD INDEMNITY SELECTION and RAILROAD LIEU SELECTION. We must treat the task of catching our children up with the urgency that this moment demands, Cardona said. This peak is named for named for Caroline Sealy Livermore. HE (Land Status Records) Homestead entry. ESCHEAT In English feudal law, the reversion of lands to the lord of the fee in consequence of a want of an individual competent to inherit. DERELICTION Same as Reliction. Quod vide means which see. INDEPENDENT RESURVEY An official rerunning and remarking intended to supersede the records of the original survey and establish new section lines and subdivisions on public lands only. WAA (Land Status Records) War Assets Administration. The name comes from the fact that these supplements, usually in pamphlet form, are stored in a pocket inside the back cover of the volume undated. Click Here to view the available trainings. REGIMEN The condition of a stream and its channel with respect to stability. CT Connecticut. See CONTERMINOUS UNITED STATES. Information must be provided orally to the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) within 24 hours from the time the overflow was discovered. INDEMNITY LIMITS In railroad and wagon road grants, the strips of land lying within a specified distance on each side of, and adjacent to, the primary limits, within which the grantee could make lieu selections for lands lost to the grantee in the primary limits; also, the outside boundaries of these strips. 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