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experience in other cities is any criterion, would lead to the discovery of a good deal of untaxed property.

To accomplish the above purposes the best method of reproduction would probably be to have the maps engraved on aluminum sheets, from which transfers can be quickly and cheaply made at any time to a lithographic stone for printing. Such sheets can be readily and indefinitely corrected.

(c) Record sheets at a much larger scale, showing all the information contained on the small scale sheets and also construction details relating to public properties, especially streets, such as pipes, sewers, conduits, etc.; to be prepared at first for limited areas only but gradually extended.

(d) A system of indexing and filing, to include, to keep track of, and to keep up to date, the records of existing physical conditions in areas covered by the surveys. This would include keeping track of the legal instruments affecting the physical conditions within streets and other public properties, or affecting the control over them; such as deeds, ordinances, and other instruments relating to the layout and grades of streets, permits and franchises for the construction or maintenance of anything within them, executive orders for new constructions or changes, and inspectors' reports of new constructions and changes actually made. As a part of this indexing and correcting system, provision could readily be made for periodical transmission of information as to changes in property ownership from the Assessors' Office (originally from the Registry of Deeds) to the Bureau of Surveys, so as to permit keeping the record maps always up to date and accurate. By means of similar transmission of records from the office of the Building Inspector, the record maps could be kept up to date with respect to new buildings. A typewritten multigraph notice of changes and corrections from all sources, made on the record sheets, could be mailed monthly to all the city Bureaus and others having sets of prints, and at longer intervals new and corrected prints of certain sheets would be offered. This would be the same general plan that is followed in regard to changes and corrections on the charts of the Coast Survey and the official Coast Pilot books, where the Notices to Mariners are issued periodically from the Hydrographic Office, and summed up at longer intervals by new editions of the several

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Original document: Frederick Law Olmsted, 1910