Section 4-42-4 - Office; books; records of surveys. - New Mexico Statutes

4-42-4. [Office; books; records of surveys.]

The county surveyor shall keep his office at the county seat, and shall keep two books of record, which shall be furnished him by the county commissioners for that purpose, which books he shall transmit to his successor in office. One book shall contain the calculations by latitudes and departures of all surveys made by him or his deputies, and each calculation shall have a corresponding number with the plat and field notes to which it refers in the book of records. The other book shall be a book of records and so constituted as to have the left page for diagrams and plats, and the right page for notes and remarks; and each diagram and plat shall be numbered progressively, and the field notes of the survey so recorded shall contain a full statement of such surveys, with the variations of the magnetic needle, length of lines, location of corners, with description of such corners, also description of all witness trees, and other marks used as witness marks for such corners, with size, distance and course.