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to admit of the arrangement being
completed or even as the instruction
were received.
26.
The matter rested thus until
the next year
in the month of August
when a letter
was received
from the
Senior Military Officer stating
that
a boundary stone had been
placed at the point marked X in pencil on the plan, where the proposed
new Road branches off from that leading towards the Albany, I think the grant to the Sun
may now be
transferred
from the War Department to the Colonial Government; the date of
placing
the stone as to its
position
can
be recorded as evidence
on the plan by War Department properly in the office.
27. Upon this a few days subsequently a Memorandum recorded by the Surveyor General to the effect that the Boundary Stone had been placed at the spot indicated by Lieutenant Colonel De Ponth, and finally the Surveyor General states "I have the day seen the Commanding Royal Engineer who informs me the Royal Engineers is perfectly satisfied with the
arrangement
that have been made,"
28.
This
my Lord, is the history
of the transfer, and I venture to say