Subject: Of North Carolina and Mexico<br/>
Date: Oct 03, 2005 @ 14:34<br/>
Author: Lowell G. McManus (&quot;Lowell G. McManus&quot; &lt;mcmanus71496@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1724998341">I&#39;m still catching up on old posts from during my long hurricane-induced <br/>
electrical outage.<br/>
<br/>
Mike D&#39;s conversations with the North Carolina authorities give us excellent new <br/>
information about that state&#39;s counties:<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; & he explained to my astonishment that the nc county<br/>
&gt; lines run not according to any legal descriptions but<br/>
&gt; simply follow the historical precedents of where<br/>
&gt; people have been paying their real estate taxes<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt; & he recalled that until about 1960 there werent even<br/>
&gt; any official property or county line maps<br/>
&gt; but that folks would just go to the county tax office<br/>
&gt; & declare how many acres they had<br/>
&gt; of cleared & uncleared land<br/>
&gt; & pay the taxes accordingly on their own say so<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt; & so the usgs has just had to cobble its county line<br/>
&gt; data together by whatever direct or indirect means<br/>
&gt; they could find & then assemble<br/>
&gt; whether from the occasional surveys or oral history or<br/>
&gt; whatever they could pick up in the landscape such as<br/>
&gt; stone walls etc<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>To me, this seems the perfect analogy to the situation regarding the boundaries <br/>
of the Mexican states (and of their municipios) and the depiction of such <br/>
boundaries on Mexican federal maps.<br/>
<br/>
Lowell G. McManus<br/>
Leesville, Louisiana, USA</div>