ART. 25] MERIDIAN LINE. 733

1888, art. 25, sec. 76 1870, ch. 382

80. The provisions of the preceding sections of this article
relating to draining lands shall apply to all lands requiring
drainage.

Meridian Line.
Ibid. sec. 77. 1870, ch. 359, sec. 1.

81. It shall be lawful for the county commissioners of each,
county in the State, if they shall deem it expedient, to cause to
be erected at some public spot adjacent to the court house of
each county, two good and substantial stone pillars, one hun-
dred feet distant apart, the one from the other, and upon the
same true meridian line. And upon the summit of one of the
said pillars there shall be placed a distinctly visible needle-
point; and upon the summit of the other there shall be erected
a hair-sight, in such a manner that a straight line passing
through the centre thereof and continued until the same shall
strike the centre of the needle-point upon the other, shall be
in and upon the line of the true meridian running north and
south, and they shall enclose and protect the same properly;
the said pillars and enclosures to be subject to the custody of
the county clerk, to be free to the access of any surveyor of
lands or civil engineer residing in said county, or engaged in
surveying therein, for the purpose of testing the variation of
the compass for the time being, and to cause the said meridian
line to be verified at any time when required so to do by order
of the circuit court for the said county; and furthermore, it
shall be lawful for the said county commissioners to cause to
be determined the accurate latitude and longitude of the pillars
aforesaid, reckoning the latter from the meridian of Washing-
ton, and to have the same marked distinctly and legibly in
degrees, minutes, seconds and parts of seconds, on one of the
pillars aforesaid.

Ibid. sec. 78. 1870, ch. 359, sec. 2.

82. The said county commissioners shall provide and keep
a standard measure of one rod in length, by which surveyors
of lands in said county may compare, test and verify their
several chains, the said standard measure to be kept under the
control and in the custody of the county clerk, and to be
accessible to all surveyors as aforesaid under such restrictions
and regulations as may be deemed by the said county commis-
sioners compatible with its safety and proper preservation.