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inconsiderable along the South line, but a case occurred on the West line where a creek had been made by which the line between two mile monuments & deflected to the East of thence throwing 7 acres off the reservation, further the man holds a patent, and the error will be seen upon the plat of T. 35. N. Range 4 West, Sec. 32. The distance from the reservation line to the N. W. corner of Section 33 is 17 chains; the distance from the res. line to the S. W. corner is nothing, whereas if the line had passed straight from one mile monument to another the distance would have been 7 chains. Upon the North West corner was found another instrusive settlement where the land is patented. This case will form the subject of a separate report.

All this new survey was carried on over a very rough country, and there was also run out over 25,500 acres for allotments. Some of these fell upon the old survey but the work was practically all new survey, as the monuments were either missing or worthless being without definite [[meetings?]] except in a limited number of cases. The Surveyor was generally obliged to carry his lines in from the outside survey; these in alloting lands in a township 12 miles or more from the boundary the Surveyor was obliged to go South of the reservation