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 finding, which finding we have already quoted. We hold that the alleged description is wholly insufficient as a description of the lands in question, or of any lands, and that it cannot be sustained as a means of identifying the lands for purposes of assessment for taxation, or for the ulterior purpose of transferring the title of the reality from the general owner to the tax title holder and his successors in interest. The alleged description is neither written out in words nor is the same expressed by characters or abreviations commonly used by conveyancers, or generally understood and used by the people at large in describing land. The description of realty placed in an assessment roll is the means of identifying or describing the land for all the subsequent steps in the process of taxation and sale, if a sale is made. The official who makes the tax list and duplicate, and the official who collects the tax, or sells and conveys the land, or certifies to its redemption from sale, are governed by the original description in the roll and are not authorized by law to change the same. It follows that the description of realty in the assessment roll in order to be legally sufficient, must be reasonably full and accurate, though it need not be technically nice and scientifically exact. This view has the support of much authority and we shall adopt it as the safer rule, and be governed by it in this case. Subject to this test, it is unnecessary to say that the pretended description in the assessment roll and lists in question were wholly insufficient. Keith v. Hayden, 26 Minn. 212, 2 N. W. Rep. 495 ; Williams v. Land Co., 32 Minn. 440, 21 N. W. Rep. 550; Black, Tax Titles, § 38; Cooley, Tax’n, 404. The description in the tax deed is governed by that in the assessment list. Turney v. Yeoman, 16 Ohio, 26 ; Kipp v. Fernhold, 37 Minn. 132, 33 N. W. Rep. 697; Bower v. O’Donnall, 29 Minn. 135, 12 N. W. Rep. 352; People v. Cone, 48 Cal. 427, also 431; People v. Mahoney, 55 Cal. 286. The lands referred to in the complaint never having been described in the assessment roll or tax list for the years 1886, 1887 and 1883, it follows necessarily and legally that no tax whatever was assessed against said lands in those years, and also follows that the treasurer of Barnes county had no authority or jurisdiction to sell the lands on account of the alleged