Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - III. Constitution and Administration. Introd. by E. Hildebrand - 2. State Administration. By E. Söderberg - Official Cartography. By A. H. Byström
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
Below is the raw OCR text
from the above scanned image.
Do you see an error? Proofread the page now!
Här nedan syns maskintolkade texten från faksimilbilden ovan.
Ser du något fel? Korrekturläs sidan nu!
This page has never been proofread. / Denna sida har aldrig korrekturlästs.
■2-20
III. CONSTITUTION AND ADMINISTRATION.
Official Cartogi-apliy.
When, on 4 April 1628, King Gustavus Adolphus issued "Instructions
to Andreas Buraeus General Mathematician, wherein his official duties
chiefly shall consist" — in which instructions the king says that, whereas
his cares are directed not only to the defence of his realm against enemies
but also to their internal advancement, he would fain have a "synopsis
wherein the situations of all His Royal Majesty’s provinces and towns
could be set before the eye in order that thereby His Royal Majesty could
thereafter the better survey and ponder what and how each part stood
so as to repair and amend the same" — then too was laid the foundation
of the official institutions which now execute the surveying,
topographical, economic, and’ maritime maps of Sweden.
The Land-surveying Service (Lanlmäteriet), whose pedigree extends
still further back, — for land-measurement is spoken of in the oldest laws
of Sweden — may thus be said to be the mother of the other Swedish
cartographical institutions. The geometrical maps that have been, and are
being, constructed by the Land-surveying Service form the main
framework of the geographical land-maps.
Now, however, the work of the Land-surveying Service is exclusively
confined to the legal repartition of land (lafja skiften): that is to say, lands
that either are unapportioned, or have already been apportioned but with
the holdings intermixed, are rearranged in as large blocks as their nature
and situation can possibly allow without detriment to any of the sharers.
To this is added the obligation to make out and keep a land-register. In
the läns of Norrbotten and Västerbotten the Land-surveying Service has
also still to manage what is called delimitation, with the object of
separating cultivable land from the State-forests and assigning it to private
owners.
At the head of the Land-surveying Service stands the Survey Board
(Landtmäteristyrelsen), consisting of a director-in-chief, two bureau chiefs as members of
the board, and a staff of clerks.
The Land-surveying staff in the läns consists of a chief surveyor in each
län, district-surveyors (one for each of the land-surveying districts, which at
present number 110), 40 extra surveyors, a manager and four surveyors for
alienation, amanuenses, auscultants, and pupils.
In each county-town there is a land-surveyor’s office, where are kept both the
maps and documents which the current regulations require to be deposited there,
and also the land-register with the documents appertaining thereto.
The maps which are executed by the land-surveyors are made out on the
scale of 1 : 2 000 in the survey of building-lots, fields, and meadows that have
such a varied intermixture of holdings or are divided into such small plots that
the adoption of a smaller scale would involve confusion or insecurity; on the
scale of 1 : 4 000 in the survey of fields and meadows with fewer intermixtures
or larger plots and of woodland with many intermixtures; and on the scale of
1 : 8 000 in the survey of woodland with a smaller number of intermixtures.
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
