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Mar Office by the Officer Commanding the Royal Engineers.
2. On referring the matter to the Surveyor General I found that some doubt existed as to the Boundary of Cantonments in Victoria on the South, no Boundary Stones being fixed and documents showing their position being on record in this Office.
3. A despatch was consequently forwarded to Major General Tytler requesting that no permutation might take place of boundaries not hitherto distinctly defined and the Surveyor General was subsequently requested to cause copies of such Documents and Plans as defined the Boundaries of Cantonments in Victoria to be furnished to this Office.
4. The Enclosed "Plan and accompanying letter were furnished by the Commanding Royal Engineer, and I am given to understand they are the only Documents which fix the Boundaries. The letter is dated 20th September 1853 and is addressed by the Commanding Royal Engineers to the respective officers of Ordnance, no copy of it appears to have been sent to this Office at the time it was written, neither does it appear that the consent of the local Government...