Duty of surveyor and processioners; preparation and certification of plat; delivery of copy to applicant; evidentiary effect of plat; admissibility

It shall be the duty of the county surveyor and the processioners to take all due precautions to arrive at the true lines and to trace out and plainly mark the same. The surveyor shall make out and certify a plat of the true lines and deliver a copy thereof to the applicant; and, in all future boundary disputes with any owner of adjoining lands who had due notice of the processioning, the certified plat and the lines so marked shall be prima facie correct; and the certified plat shall be admissible in evidence without further proof. (Orig. Code 1863, § 2354; Code 1868, § 2351; Code 1873, § 2386; Code 1882, § 2386; Civil Code 1895, § 3245; Civil Code 1910, § 3819; Code 1933, § 85-1606.)