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Engineering Aid 2 - Intermediate Structural engineering guide book
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corners,  particularly  where  the  corner  markers themselves  lack  permanence.  In  timbered  country, blazes on trees on or adjacent to a boundary line are most useful in reestablishing the line at a future date. It  is  also  advisable  to  state  the  names  of  abutting property owners along the several sides of the tract being    described.    Many   metes-and-bounds descriptions fail to include all of these particulars and are  frequently  very  difficult  to  retrace  or  locate  in relation  to  adjoining  ownerships. One  of  the  reasons  why  the  determination  of boundaries in the United States is often difficult is that early surveyors often confined themselves to  minimal description; that is, to a bare statement of the  metes and bounds, courses and distances. Today, good practice  requires  that  a  land  surveyor  include  all relevant  information  in  his  description. In  preparing  the  description  of  a  property,  the surveyor should bear in mind that the description must clearly  identify  the  location  of  the  property  and  must give all necessary data from which the boundaries can be  reestablished  at  any  future  date.  The  written description  contains  the  greater  part  of  the  information shown on the plan. Usually both a description and a plan   are   prepared   and,   when   the   property   is transferred,  are  recorded  according  to  the  laws  of  the county  concerned.  The  metes-and-bounds  description of the property shown in figure 10-34 is given below. “All that certain tract or parcel of land and premises, hereinafter particu- larly described, situate, lying and being in  the  Township  of  Maplewood  in the County of Essex and State of New Jersey  and  constituting  lot  2  shown  on the  revised  map  of  the  Taylor  property in said township as filed in the Essex County Hall of Records on March 18, 1944. “Beginning at an iron pipe in the northwesterly  line  of  Maplewood  Ave- nue therein distant along same line four hundred  and  thirty-one  feet  and  sev- enty-one-hundredths of a foot north- easterly from a stone monument at the northerly corner of Beach Place and Maplewood Avenue; thence running (1) North forty-four degrees thirty-one and one-half minutes West along land of.  .  .” Another  form  of  a  lot  description  maybe  presented  as follows: “Beginning at the northeasterly corner of the tract herein described; said corner being the intersection of the southerly line of Trenton Street and the westerly line of Ives Street; thence run- ning S6°29´54´´E bounded easterly by said Ives Street, a distance of two hun- dred  and  twenty-seven  one  hundredths (200.27) feet to the northerly line of Wickenden  Street;  thence  turning  an interior angle of 89°59´16´´ and run- ning S83°39´50´´W bonded southerly by said Wickenden Street, a distance of one hundred and no one-hundredths (100.00) feet to a corner; thence turn- ing an interior angle of. . . .” You will notice that in the above example, interior angles were added to the bearings of the boundary lines. This will be another help in retracing lines. Figure 10-34.—Lot plan by metes and bounds. 10-31







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