. Manitoba and the great North-West [microform] : the field for investment; the home of the emigrant, being a full and complete history of the country .... Agriculture; Natural history; Agriculture; Sciences naturelles. I I. tions occasioned by the convergence t)f meridians or any other causo are made. East of the First Principal Meridian the Ranges are nnmbered east of that meridian and the townships numbered as usual. Every township is sub-divided into thirty-six "sections," eacli containing one square mile or G40 acres, more or less. All townships are subject to the conveyance and
. Manitoba and the great North-West [microform] : the field for investment; the home of the emigrant, being a full and complete history of the country .... Agriculture; Natural history; Agriculture; Sciences naturelles. I I. tions occasioned by the convergence t)f meridians or any other causo are made. East of the First Principal Meridian the Ranges are nnmbered east of that meridian and the townships numbered as usual. Every township is sub-divided into thirty-six "sections," eacli containing one square mile or G40 acres, more or less. All townships are subject to the conveyance and divergence of meridians, together with certain road allowances having a width of one chain on each section line running north and south, and on every alternate section line running east and west. Under the old system of survey all road allowances were one chain and a half (110 feet) wide, but a new system was inaugurated last year by which all are now reduced to one chain (66 feet). Diagram No. 1 gives a township as laid out under the old system of survey, and No. 2, one under the new system. The following extracts are taken from an excellent little work published by Captain C. W. Allen, of Winnipeg, en- titled the Land Prospector's Manual and Field Book:— " Survey lines are marked on the ground by the planting or erecting of such posts, stones, mounds, or other monu- ments as will serve the temporary purpose of guiding Prospectors through the country, and which also constitute permanent landmarks to establish the legal boundaries of farms held by different proprietors. " Only a single row of posts (or other monuments) to in- dicate the corners of townships, sections, or quarter-sections is placed on the ground to show the line surveyed, except in the case of correction lines. Such posts are invariably planted along the western limit of the road allowance on all lines running north and south, and in the southern limit of the road allowance on all lines running east
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