PREFACE.

To the Members of the Association of Ontario Land Surveyors.

The Proceedings of the Association at its Seventeenth Annual Meeting are herewith presented. Respectfully submitted on behalf of the Council, KILLALY GAMBLE,

Secretary.

Colonel Mahlon Burwell

Minutes of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting
President's Address

11
38.

76

The Surveyor, Past and Present, and the Fu-

ture Prospects for Him in Northern On-

tario

123

The Seigniory of Longueuil

153

Equipment and Management of a Party on a

"Township Outline" Survey

155

Gravity

162

Drainage

170

Notes on Iron Ore Mining, Bell Island, New-

foundland

172

The Mill Lot in North Plantagenet Township

Tables for Determining Azimuth by the Polar

Star

183

185

PAST PRESIDENTS.

Villiers Sankey, H. J. Bowman, 1890-1892. 1899-1900.

Maurice Gaviller, 1895--1896.

M. J. Butler, T. Harry Jones, W. R. Ayles worth, 1894-1895. 1897-1898.

1902-1904.

George Ross, P. S. Gibson, 1900-1901.

Otto Klotz, J. W. Tyrrell, C. A. Jones, Thos. Fawcett, 1898-1899. 1906-1907. 1905-1906. 1904-1905. 1907-1908. James Dickson, E. Stewart, A. Niven, G. B. Kirkpatrick, 1901-1902. 1892-1894. 1888-1890. 1886-1888.

A. J. Van Nostrand, 1908-1909.

Willis Chipman, 1896-1897.

HON. FRANK COCHRANE, Commissioner Lands, Forests and Mines.

Imperial Bank of Canada (Yonge St. Branch),

Toronto.