Opinion No. Oag 74-77, (1977)

ANTHONY S. EARL., Secretary Department of Natural Resources

You ask how an E-W 1/4 line and the center 1/4 corner are determined when the E 1/4 corner falls in a meandered lake.

Your request has required several telephone and personal conferences to delineate the questions involved. Section 36, T39N, R10E, Oneida County (hereinafter referred to as section 36), gives rise to the questions submitted. The DNR owns both the SW 1/4 of the NW 1/4 and the SW 1/4 of section 36 and wishes to survey and monument the parcels properly. Such a survey will require placing or replacing the center 1/4 corner.

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