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I may thus, with the outlines of the work I have defined, and which will recuply my Department several years in executing retire under the conviction that I have done my duty to the Colony.
And that now younger hands may fairly be allowed to follow the lead I have given, and I trust I shall not be obliged by Her Majesty's Government to return, but that my Pension may be granted, if not, in consideration of my age and length of service, upon that or on account of a weakened constitution, the grounds of incessant toil.
300 and special services in the management of so difficult a tract of land on which Victoria stands, a tract of land which my predecessors never even attempted to grapple with, for on my arrival here I found everything in confusion; land had been sold without reference to the future, there was little reliable record even of such sales, and it became indispensable to resume every lot then sold and to release them in the manner defined by me upwards of twenty years ago; upon that plan and its various extensions from time to