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was

*

dated 11 1866

Commending it um replied to ly a letter from Lealand Lovell, Commanding Royal Engineer, laying claim to ground which considerably overlaps that along which the proposed road would go, namely up to the 300

13.

feet contour.

In this letter Colonel Lovell referred to the "letter of the 15th September 1853", and stated that the record plans now in existence were copies of that referred to in this letter, in which the boundaries were explicitly detailed; and that though

Vide

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* Page 42. Inclosure.

it was true that the Plan did not shew the boundary quite up to the 500

feet contour, yet that that was only owing to the paper

was

the plan

was made not being quite large enough, (though I may remark by the way that it is amply large enough as a reference to it will show)

and that in all other respects the boundaries marked on the plan coincided so nicely

A.

with those detailed in the letter of the 15th September 1858, that it might be inferentially concluded that had the paper been large enough the continuation of the boundary line would still have continued to coincide with

that of the letter referred to, and indeed the method adopted for defining the upper part of the boundary by Magnetic Bearings


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