Surveying Records and the Public : and Other Papers Presented at the Second Surveyors Conference January 27-28, 1931, Ames, Iowa, February 18, 1931

(1931) Surveying Records and the Public : and Other Papers Presented at the Second Surveyors Conference January 27-28, 1931, Ames, Iowa, February 18, 1931. Iowa State University

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Abstract

Surveying records throughout the state are gradually deteriorating. The only provision now existing in our law for their preservation is the one which states : "Said' [ county] surveyor hall make all surveys of land within his county which he may be called upon to make, and the field notes and plats made by him shall be transcribed into a well bound book, ... which book shall be kept in the county auditor's office . . . .. '' Inasmuch as the county surveyor has been practically an extinct office since the office of the county engineer was created some fifteen years ago, it has been nobody's duty to keep up such records. The discussion at the surveyors' conference looked toward a betterment of these conditions. This bulletin is published so that those who were unable to attend the second surveyors' conference might have the benefit of the papers and discussion presented here.