History ETDs

Publication Date

5-30-1956

Abstract

New Mexico enjoys the use and benefits of the most complete and ingenious system of identifying land areas ever devised by man - the rectangular system of surveying. This system of survey was used in the states of the United States except "six New England States, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Texas, the United States not being the owner of public lands in any of these political divisions." The economic efficiency of surveying with this system has done much to preclude the possibility of litigation over boundaries as is so common in the States where it does not prevail.

Level of Degree

Doctoral

Degree Name

History

Department Name

History

First Committee Member (Chair)

Frank D. Reeve

Second Committee Member

George Warren Arms

Third Committee Member

William Miner Dabney

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

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