355
end;
been sent to the Government; had intrinsic legal value whatever.
M
signed
Panther, the plan which was torn months later by the Governor
and Military Authority showed
500
feet beyond
Boundary,
but simply the then existing
Boundary Line, and that therefore,
even
as
if the Commanding Royal
Engineer thought that the Government had requisitioned in the Boundaries
detailed in the letter of the 15th September, such allusion entirely dispelled by the subsequent complete record signed by both parties on the 19th October of
that
year.
16. That this
was
really the true
& Record, as it was the only legally
binding record, might be inferred from the fact that two
when the facts
were
years
later
fresh in the
memory,
the respective Ordnance Officers though "animated by a spirit of hostility and distrust to the "Government" and hence extremely unlikely to be willing to admit
such thing, admitted that the
The Ordnance
Boundary Line
was
at Victoria.
In conclusion the Governor hoped that for peace sake and
a matter of right, the Secretary of State would concur
not as