Community civics and rural life . of section 8of township 3 north in range3 west. The 40 acres markedNE i NW % is the northeast1 of the northwest | of sec-tion 8 of township 3 north inrange 3 west. 196 COMMUNITY CIVICS correction lines, from which the survey began again as from the originalbase line (see diagram II). Each township is divided into sections one mile square, and thereforecontaining 640 acres each. These sections are numbered in each townshipfrom 1 to 36 as indicated in diagram III. Each section is further sub-divided into halves and quarters, which are designated as in diagram IV
Community civics and rural life . of section 8of township 3 north in range3 west. The 40 acres markedNE i NW % is the northeast1 of the northwest | of sec-tion 8 of township 3 north inrange 3 west. 196 COMMUNITY CIVICS correction lines, from which the survey began again as from the originalbase line (see diagram II). Each township is divided into sections one mile square, and thereforecontaining 640 acres each. These sections are numbered in each townshipfrom 1 to 36 as indicated in diagram III. Each section is further sub-divided into halves and quarters, which are designated as in diagram IV. This government survey has been made only in the publiclands (see below, p. 197). It is still being carried on by theGeneral Land Office of the Department of the Interior. In1917 more than 10,000,000 acres, or nearly 16,000 square miles,were surveyed. In that year there still remained unsurveyed. Courtesy American Magazine of Art. Surveying the LandAfter a painting by Frank D. Miller. more than 900,000 square miles of public land, 590,000 of whichwere in Alaska and 320,000 in the United States proper. Inthe original thirteen states along the Atlantic seaboard a similarsurvey has been made, but either by private enterprise or underthe authority of the state or county governments. Massa-chusetts has recently spent a large sum of money in a new surveyof the state for the purpose of verifying and correcting Has your father a deed to the land you live on ? If so, ask him to showit to you and explain it. How is the land described? At the first convenient time, make a visit to the office of the recorder ofdeeds in your county, and ask to have some of the records shown andexplained to you, preferably the record of the property you occupy. Where THE PEOPLE AND THE LAND 197 is the office of the recorder? (A visit of this sort should be in companywith the teacher or
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