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Upon receipt of this letter, H.E. Richard MacDonnell wrote another despatch to the Secretary of State on 4 June 1866.
In it, he combated the argument made by Colonel Yule.
15: In the first place, no perambulation of the property had ever taken place. In the second place, two years after signing of the plan of 1855, the responsible officers of Ordnance admitted that the Ordnance Boundaries at Victoria were the Ordnance Bounds, thus admitting that the land in dispute did not belong to the Military Reserves, the Sunday Store being considerably north of it, or lower down the hill. And in the third place, with regard to the latter dated 15th September 1853, even if it did refer to the Government as having assented to the arrangement of the limits of the Cantonments as therein defined (a statement which could not now be verified), yet no detailed definition of the Sundridge had ever been supplied to the Colonial Government, and the authority of that letter, a copy of which...