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would in the absence of
any.
other
ascertained Boundary form a very
desirable one
!
I have now the honor to
report that I have sine received a through the Major General a copy of a letter of the Office Commanding Royal Enginer commenting on my dispatch. and fuurtting in a claim to a boundary for South of the stoves that
I at present mark the limits of
Cantonments.
Sovell
me
a
then
The arguments of Colonel
many of them such
as
to
requino very special notice and I had
intended to transmit
my
remarks
therem by this mail- Knowing that it is intended by Colonel Sovell to
}
foreward his
report by this opportunilų.
cannot however do so because I have
been unable as
yet
to obtain an answer
to a plain question inj:
that the Military Southern Boundary
has
annually
whether in stating
been
fur ambulated it is
pulinded by Colonel Sovell that the
Boundary
puambulatio.
J
Contended
for
Over was
asked that question through
the Colmial Secretary-
An in
m
the 18th Instant
incomplete if not evasive reply
was returnut on
the 2.44
it Distant. I
repented the question stite more plainly
in the 25th Instmits and
AW
now
though it is
post office hours on the eve of
the departure of the mail early tomorro
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