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Surveying FS

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Which of the following is a general rule followed by the Bureau of Land Management regarding the location of all public lands?
I. Boundaries of the public lands, when approved and accepted, are unchangeable.
II. Original township, section, and quarter-section corners stand as the true corners which they were intended to represent whether in the place shown by the field notes or not.
III. Center lines of a section are to be straight, running from the quarter section corner on one boundary to the corresponding corner on the opposite boundary.
  1. I
  2. I, II
  3. I, II, III
  4. None of the above
Explanation
Answer: C - All of the general rules listed are followed by the Bureau of Land Management with regards to public land surveys. In summary, corners established in public land surveys are to remain fixed and are not changeable; lost or obliterated corners of those surveys must be restored to their original locations from the best available evidence of the official survey in which the corners were established.
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