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Appropriate regulations of the Public Land Laws are enforced by: |
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The Secretary of Interior |
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The district chief |
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None of the above |
| 2. |
The fundamentals of corner restoration have evolved from |
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The authority vested in the Secretary, |
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Statutory law, |
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Common law and court decisions |
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All of the above |
| 3. |
The boundaries of the public lands, when approved and accepted are changeable by the people. |
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True |
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False |
| 4. |
The monuments set at the time of the original survey are the best evidence as to where the original boundaries were established, and as such the position must remain unchangeable. |
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True |
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False |
| 5. |
A ___________________is a reconstruction of land boundaries and subdivisions accomplished by rerunning and remarking the lines represented in the field note record or on the plat of a previous official survey. |
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Resurvey |
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Rebuilding |
| 6. |
If a boundary line was marked by line trees and an original marked line tree is found, it still marks the boundary line (at least in alignment) and may become an angle point in the line. |
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True |
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False |
| 7. |
Under the law, a definitely identified line tree is a _______________ of the original survey. |
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Law |
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Monument |
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Building |
| 8. |
As an existing monument, a ________________ is used as a control point in the reestablishment of lost corners by the appropriate method of proportionate measurement. |
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Line tree |
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Blazed line |
| 9. |
Often line trees were recorded as being on the original surveyor’s random line and not on the actual true line between corners. |
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True |
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False |
| 10. |
If a boundary line was marked by a witness point and it is found, it still marks the boundary line (at least in alignment) and may become an angle point in the line. |
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True |
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False |
| 11. |
Traditional methods employed to interpret ambiguous agreements or title documents are called__________________________. |
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Rules of Construction |
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Rules of Surveying |
| 12. |
The _____________________copy of the Official Plat is generally the one from which patents are issued and therefore should be the one used if discrepancies (e.g. area, distances, lottings, etc.) exist on various copies thereof. |
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Survey office |
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Land Office |
| 13. |
Where there is a variance between the plat and the field notes of an original government survey, the_____________ must control. |
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Plat |
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Field notes |
| 14. |
The _________________is developed from the field notes and is intended to be an exact pictorial representation thereof. |
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Township plat |
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Monument |
| 15. |
By placing any blunder where it occurred and weighing corroborative collateral evidence, the surveyor can make a professional decision as to whether a line tree or a blazed line is the best available evidence of the position of the original boundary line. |
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True |
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False |
| 16. |
_______________________are restored by the nearest and best available evidence. |
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Corners |
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Monument |
| 17. |
The _________________corner is one at whose point there are no remaining traces of the monument or its accessories, but whose location has been perpetuated, or the point for which may be recovered beyond reasonable doubt by the acts and testimony of the interested landowners, competent surveyors, other qualified local authorities, or witnesses, or by some acceptable record evidence. |
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Obliterated |
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Existent |
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Lost |
| 18. |
Retracements are often used to gather collateral evidence of the original survey. |
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True |
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False |
| 19. |
Where the direction of a line can be determined from the mean position of a number of blazed trees, the direction so established may be controlling where the corner monument is lost. |
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True |
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False |
| 20. |
When a lost corner was originally established at the terminus of lines from __________directions, it should be restored at the record distances (cardinal equivalents) with the possibility of an index correction. One distance controls latitudinally and the other controls meridionally. |
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Two |
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Three |
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Four |
| 21. |
How many general types of irregular boundaries exist? |
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Two |
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Three |
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Four |
| 22. |
A reference monument is an accessory to a________________. |
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Field notes |
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Corner |
| 23. |
Line trees have the same function as a______________________. |
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Witness point |
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Existent corner |
| 24. |
The precedence of some lines over other lines is recognized in restoring lost corners. |
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True |
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False |
| 25. |
A witness point has the same function as a line tree and is used in the same manner to restore lost or obliterated corners. |
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True |
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False |
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