North Dakota Century Code Title 11. Counties § 11-01-04. Benson County

Beginning at the southwest corner of township one hundred fifty-one north, range seventy-one west of the fifth principal meridian; thence east along the line between townships one hundred fifty and one hundred fifty-one north to the southeast corner of township one hundred fifty-one north, range sixty-two west; thence north along the line between ranges sixty-one and sixty-two to a point one thousand three hundred twenty feet, more or less, south of the northeast corner of section twelve, township one hundred fifty-one north, range sixty-two west, the same being the quarter quarter line; thence due west along said quarter quarter line to point where said quarter quarter line intersects the east boundary of the Devils Lake Indian Reservation; thence northerly along said boundary line to the southeast corner of lot five, section ten, township one hundred fifty-one, range sixty-two; thence due west along the south line of said lot five and thence due west on the quarter quarter line to a point where said quarter quarter line intersects the meander line of East Devils Lake; thence southerly along said meander line to the southern extremity of said meander line on said East Devils Lake as re-established by the United States department of the interior in surveys accepted in 1972; thence in a northwesterly direction along said south meander line of East Devils Lake and Devils Lake to the point of intersection of the thirteenth standard parallel with the meander line of Devils Lake in section thirty-one, township one hundred fifty-three north, range sixty-five west; thence west along said thirteenth standard parallel to the intersection of the range line between ranges sixty-five and sixty-six west; thence north along said range line to the northeast corner of township one hundred fifty-three north, range sixty-six west; thence west along the line between townships one hundred fifty-three and one hundred fifty-four north to a point on the west meander line of Devils Lake as re-established by the United States department of the interior in surveys accepted in 1972; thence in a northwesterly direction along said meander line to a point where said meander line intersects the center of Mauvaise Coulee; thence in a northwesterly direction along the center of Mauvaise Coulee to a point where said centerline intersects the range line between ranges sixty-six and sixty-seven west; thence north along said range line to the northeast corner of township one hundred fifty-six north, range sixty-seven west, a point on the fourteenth standard parallel; thence west along the fourteenth standard parallel to the northwest corner of township one hundred fifty-six north, range seventy-one west; thence south along the line between ranges seventy-one and seventy-two west to the southwest corner of township one hundred fifty-three north, range seventy-one west, a point on the thirteenth standard parallel; thence east along the thirteenth standard parallel to the northwest corner of township one hundred fifty-two north, range seventy-one west; thence continuing south along the line between ranges seventy-one and seventy-two west to the point of beginning.