The justices of a county may convert it or any portion of it into a highway district to be governed by a highway board, the powers and responsibilities of which will be the same as those of the parish surveyor under the former act.
The surveyor is likewise specially charged with the removal of nuisances on the highway.
I have frequently in the matter of disputed lines seen the surveyor cut the old blaze off, perhaps, of twenty years' growth, and discover the numbers perfect, although the wood had made such a growth over the original blaze.
Every township is laid out by the surveyor in parallel lines, sixty- six chains apart.
A road engineer or surveyor would call this grading, preparatory to gravelling or planking.
As a land surveyor there are few better in the province.
Remembering their own former habits, they used to say that the Surveyor was walking the quarter-deck.
The discovery was soon made, I imagine, that the new Surveyor had no great harm in him.
I had ceased to be a writer of tolerably poor tales and essays, and had become a tolerably good Surveyor of the Customs.
It was well for their venerable brotherhood that the new Surveyor was not a politician, and though a faithful Democrat in principle, neither received nor held his office with any reference to political services.
Meanwhile, there I was, a Surveyorof the Revenue, and, so far as I have been able to understand, as good a Surveyor as need be.
And I said to the ghost of Mr. Surveyor Pue, “I will!
Now it was that the lucubrations of my ancient predecessor, Mr. Surveyor Pue, came into play.
Not that theSurveyor brought the lesson home to himself, or admitted that he could be so utterly undone, either by continuance in office, or ejectment.
No one has yet ascended their summits, and as Mr. Hayden points out, the geologist has to do his work at close quarters, and not like the surveyor from a distance.
Footnote 9: The great surveyor and map maker, David Thompson, was the first white man to reach the upper waters of the Columbia River.
He not only wrote well, and was a good surveyor for rough map making, but he had a considerable talent as a draughtsman.
It may be mentioned that a United States surveyor has also determined the points at which the Yukon River and Forty Mile Creek are intersected by the 141st meridian.
At the same time instructions were given Mr. William Ogilvie, the surveyor referred to as having, with Dr.
The small crocodile shoes had lost all shine and shape, and it was with the greatest effort that the surveyor and his sister-in-law could pull them off the feet.
It was the government's cottage for the surveyor of that little department of the custom house on the East Skerries.
There isn't much of him left," answered the surveyor as he carried his wet load up to the cottage.
When he was finally deprived of most of his clothing and covered with quilts, they carried him boiled milk and schnapps, each shaking an arm, after which the surveyor raised the little body and slowly poured the milk into it.
To put on wall papers for his successor or for the Crown, neither the surveyor nor his predecessors had the heart.
After a moment's beseeching the surveyor becoming absent and dejected began to observe the maneuvering.
At the tiller sat the Custom House Surveyor of the East Skerries, a giant with black long full beard.
The oars were put out and the boat gave a few rolls, for the surveyor had left the tiller angrily at the command, exclaiming, "Yes, then he can take the helm himself!
The commissioner at once took his place in the stern and the tiller was under his arm before the surveyor had ceased swearing.
The surveyor must have found him ridiculous, for frequently he turned leeward with a pretense of spitting tobacco juice to conceal a rising laugh.
He instantly felt his authority infringed on, and taking his hat went down to the surveyor to demand his help as he was in the Crown's service and in duty bound to assist him.
Thomas Marshall was immediately recognized as one of the leading men in this western Virginia district, and was elected to the Legislature and became "Surveyor [Collector] of Revenue for the District of Ohio.
For more than three years the youthful surveyor passed most of his time in the Blue Ridge part of the British nobleman's vast holdings,[145] and in frequent and intimate contact with his employer.
Thomas Marshall was now Surveyor of Fayette County, Kentucky.
Marshall participated in the appointment of General George Rogers Clark to the office of Surveyor of Officers' and Soldiers' lands.
But as a young and moneyless surveyor he had no books of his own and his "book" education was limited and shallow.
He became Surveyor of Fayette County, Kentucky, upon his removal to that district, and afterwards Collector of Revenue for the District of Ohio.
Thomas Marshall's life was profoundly influenced by his early and intimate companionship with the well-mannered though impetuous and headstrong young Washington, who engaged him as assistant surveyor of the Fairfax estate.
Bishop Williams thinks the surveyor must have been misled to some extent.
Somewhat later than our period, an English surveyor on the west coast of the South Island was disturbed in his camp by a party of Maoris who had come from Ahaura in the valley of the upper Grey.
Up, and to the Office, where Commissioner Middleton first took place at the Board as Surveyor of the Navy; and indeed I think will be an excellent officer; I am sure much beyond what his predecessor was.
The following memorandum was addressed by theSurveyor of Lloyd's to A.
In those days, an orderly scarcely durst take a message from the Governor to the Surveyor General's tent, within sight, unless accompanied by a couple of his fellows, with their muskets ready for action.
He was accompanied by a young man named Wills assurveyor and observer; he alone kept a diary, and from his own statements therein he was frequently more than a hundred miles out of his reckoning.
Sturt was accompanied, as surveyor and draftsman, by John McDouall Stuart, whom I shall mention in his turn.
It is usual to look upon him as an explorer and surveyor only, but a little enquiry shows that he played an active part in some of the most stirring events of the next few years.
The circumstance that Washington had practised the art of a surveyor for a short time in his early youth, was a source of great exultation with Andries Coejemans.
The landmarks are disappearing, and it would cost any man who should attempt it, the value of his lot, to hire a surveyor to find his twenty-five by a hundred.
For my part, I shall be satisfied with the surveyor he may happen to select, even though he should be a Yankee.
Do you think, then, of making a surveyor of your niece?
My uncle has taken the business of you at so much the day, finding surveyor and laborers--poor, dear Frank!
I thought you had been a surveyor originally, and that you fell back on the chain because you had no taste for figures.
The surveyor had his field-inkstand with him, as a matter of course, and I had the power of attorney in my pocket ready for the insertion of the Chainbearer's name, would he accept the office of agent.
But how do you come on at the Ridge, and who is this surveyor of yours?
For that matter, I've known crows that, in plantin' time, would measure a field in half the number of minutes that the state surveyor would be hours at it.
Yes, Dus would make as goot a surveyor as her brot'er, after a week's trial.
And the Surveyor and Searcher at Rhode Island did Seize upon and Secure the Sloop belonging to one Draper, employed by the said Joseph Whipple, in which a considerable Quantities of the Sugars, etc.
Thomas Lechmere, younger brother of Lord Lechmere, was surveyor general of the customs for the northern district of America; he had married the only daughter of Major-Gen.
An established surveyor who knows the locality is, of course, the best person to undertake such work.
A surveyor reduces all this to exact measurements and puts definite markers at the corners and wherever else the party lines change direction.
Our native surveyor Imam Sharif saw one of these cups with an inscription on it, but was unable to secure the relic.
Stein formed the bold project of visiting Mahaban personally, and taking a surveyor with him.
And there is this to be noted about that section of it which still lies beyond the ken of the frontier officer and which as yet the surveyor has not mapped.
Consequently they cannot properly be counted with the heathen by any surveyorwho wishes to present the facts.
In order to fill up the preceding tables the missionary surveyor must be able to state what is the area and what the population in the station district.
Whatever he may think of them, as a surveyor he has no right to ignore them.
Of course where the surveyor has before him more elaborate tables prepared for some board, he can serve all purposes best by keeping those tables carefully and sending copies of them to those who may be interested.
If the surveyor without further inquiry rejects them because they belong to a society which he does not like, that may be an exhibition of ecclesiastical zeal, but it is not the science of surveying.
Smith (William) surveyor to the African company, his account of the Ivory Coast, 20.
John Smith, surveyorto the African company, his observations thereon.
The farther he walked the more the surveyor apparently warmed to his work.
Culver, the Government agent and surveyor is a dark one," he mused aloud, half to himself.
The surveyor himself was at times as much as a mile or more behind, dumbly waving Glen to right or left, as he peered through his glass and set the course by the compass and angles of his transit.
But I'll have that line overhauled if I have to hold up a privatesurveyor and put him over the course at the front of a gun.
There was no surveyor nearer than two hundred miles, with Pratt, as Van expressed it, "camping with the foe.
But having finally landed the Government surveyor in camp, he had achieved the first desirable end in the game they were playing, and matters were moving at last with a speed to suit the most exacting.
In a quiet, effective manner, Glen then went to work to secure a surveyor on his own account, or rather at Beth's suggestion.
We had suspicions, from a study of the maps, but it took the Government surveyor to make the matter certain.
Already informed as to what would be required, the surveyor was provided with all the data possible concerning the reservation limits.
He was thoroughly aware that even when the line could be run, establishing some error or fraud on the part of surveyor Lawrence, the fight would barely be opened.
Mr. Charles Rankin, Deputy-Surveyor in the Western District, in his evidence before the Commission (ib.
His services as a land surveyor were highly valued.
The First Riding returned David Gibson, a land surveyor who resided on Yonge Street, about eight miles north of the city, near the present village of Willowdale.
Adjoining this building are the Offices of the Surveyor General and Secretary of the Province.
In the same year, in a competition with nineteen other architects, he obtained the lucrative office of Surveyor and Architect to the Bank of England, which laid the foundation of the splendid fortune he afterwards acquired.
Colonel Hardenbergh was familiar as a surveyor with its comparative advantages, for a settlement, and especially with its superior water power, and had already indicated the lot on his map of survey as a "good mill site.
The town is indicated but not named on the map of Mr. Lodge, the surveyor who accompanied Colonel Butler's detachment.
Up, and got my wife to read to me a copy of what theSurveyor offered to the Duke of York on Friday, he himself putting it into my hands to read; but, Lord!
The Surveyor answered, in two years, and not sooner.
