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Local Government. There are the only two documents existing which fix the boundaries. The letter is dated: the 15th September
plan is dated the
10.
1853 and the
19
6th October 1858.
The Boundaries as defined
in the letter
are very explicit, but no copy of the letter having been sent to the Colonial Government; the Colonial Government cannot be a party to them as fixed therein, Sir Ashad MacDonnell
It does not appear that the consent of the Local Government
was not and could not
remarkably
has
been given
in any way to the boundaries being defined therein as suggested.
11. The other Document, therefore,
The plan.
The only document
which defined the boundaries; this
signed by the Governor, the Commanding Royal Engineer and the Surveyor General. This plan fixes the South-West and South-East Boundary, but fixes no Boundary between these points. It was in consequence of this that Sir Richard MacDonnell proposed that the road then under contemplation should form the Boundary between the two points.
12.
When however, a copy of the Despatch embodying this proposal
forwarded to the Major-General