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

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