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From Robert G. Alford, Acting C.E. late Inspector of Buildings to Surveyor General.
Sir,
As Kongthong, 13th March, 1876.
In reply to your request that - an eyewitness and participant I should report in writing for your information upon the manner in which the practical transfer of the Military Reservations was effected in 1869. I beg to state that Colonel De Butts, Commanding Royal Engineer, having been asked to indicate the exact spot where the Garden Road Boundary stone was to be placed, met me...