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County moves to boost PLSS funding, plans search for missing townsite records
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Morgan County officials moved to add a proposed increase in the record-of-survey filing fee from $20 to $30 to the county fee schedule for public hearing, and discussed funding a trip or contract to retrieve missing townsite records from federal archives.
Morgan County officials on Aug. 19 agreed to place a proposed increase in the record-of-survey filing fee on the county's fee schedule for public hearing, and discussed plans and funding to search federal archives for missing townsite records needed for local land surveys.
County surveyor Recorder Rose requested the board approve raising the record-of-survey filing fee from $20 to $30 per sheet. Rose said the additional revenue would be dedicated to the county's PLSS inventory — "the section corners here in Morgan County" — which he said is "very lacking" and needs investment. He told commissioners the…
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