Closing Corners (Off-Line)

It is evident that the law provides for the lengths of the lines, as returned in the field notes, to be held as the true lengths, and the distances between identified corner positions given in the field notes to constitute proper data from which to determine the position of a lost corner; hence the rule that lost corners are restored at distances proportionate to the original measurements between identified positions. When an original closing corner is recovered off the line closed upon and the new monument is established at the true point of intersection, the original position will control the proportionate restoration of lost corners on the closing line which are dependent upon the closing corner. In a like manner the positioning of sixteenthsection corner(s) or lot corner(s) on the closing line, between the quarter-section corner and the closing corner, will be based on the measurement to the original corner monument.