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held to have been satisfactorily settled by Your Lordship's Despatch W.. of the 18th of March 1868, N. 63, with Enclosure from the War Office,
in the following year especially as in the the Commanding Royal Engineer Colonel de Tuti suggested that a stone laid at Rustam should form the point up to which the Military Reserves should go, and expressed concurrence when this was done.
Since that time the Military Authorities have frequently suggested the commencement of the contemplated New Road with a view to a clear definition of the Colonial and Military Boundaries through its whole course, but no attempt whatsoever has until lately been made to unsettle the arrangement of 1868, by which clearly pointed out in Sir Richard G. MacDonnell's Despatches of 28th April and 29th May, 1866, Nr. 26 and 47, the Colonial Government did not in reality receive anything, but rather ceded considerable space of ground to the War Department.
The amicable arrangement made in 1868 was unfortunate