SDCL § 43-19-4: Manner of setting permanent landmarks--Reestablishment of section corners--Certificate of survey.

Such landmarks shall in all cases be set on section corners and quarter posts established by the United States survey, but if there be a clerical error or omission in the government field notes, or the bearing trees, mounds, or other locating evidences specified therein be destroyed or lost, and there be no other reliable evidence by which such corner can be identified, such surveyor shall reestablish such corner under the rules adopted by the general government in the survey of public lands. Such surveyor shall, in all cases, set forth such action in his certificate of the survey.