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of the Board which he suggested,
tion which seems to have
suggestion
a
subsequently fallen through. At least
I can trace it no
the result of the Correspondence summed up by the Duke of Newcastle in his
further and I find
Despatch No 15 of 27 January 1864
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the conditions on
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Mr. B.
392
J.C.
longer required for
17403/13
R.
merely defining which land no Military purposes should revert to
the Colony. In fact a quotation from
the Iliad would have been as
to
any question
now under
apropos
discussion
as
Moody's letter.
8.
CL
reference to Colonel
I fail equally to gain any information from Colonel Lovell's
Entrand in
note of last July
addressed to the
Surveyor General and referred to by
Colonel Lovell
cus
proving the Surveyor
General's knowledge of the present
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plans of the Military. I enclose that
note in Original the better to enable
Your Lordship to judge how far it
supports such an
assertion. It is a private note, which never would have been written at all but for the
accidental circumstance of the Surveyor
General wanting
some earth then
lying
on War Department ground.
It
gives
no reason to
suppose that
any
plan
was
then
much
less
designed
matured for pushing forward the
frontage of ground not War Department