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Minnesota Public Land Surveys; A Geographer's Perspective

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Standardized InstructionsIn 1851 the Oregon Manual of Surveying Instructions was issued• Initially controlled the surveys carried out in the newly established Pacific surveyingdistricts of Oregon Territory and California• Subsequently made applicable to the existing Atlantic surveying districts ofWisconsin and Iowa including <strong>Minnesota</strong> Territory – and perhaps Louisiana andArkansas• Subsequently made applicable to the new Pacific surveying districts of Kansas andNebraska, New Mexico, and Washington1855 republication made applicable to all existing and all subsequent surveyingdistricts – made part of every surveying contract in 1862

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