the old line would have involved, and they were not carried out until it had been obtained that the latter had
been considered otherwise
than a rough approach to the final boundary which it was always understood would be determined when the road came to be built.
4.
As one of the main objects of the road has been to obtain a clearly defined line of demarcation between Crown land and the War Department Reserves in Victoria, Your Lordship will perceive that
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the adoption of the approximate line of 1869 is inadmissible for the reasons
in the
last paragraph of the Surveyor General's Report.
I have the honour to be,
My Lord,
Your Lordship's most obedient
humble servant,
P. S. In accordance with Your Lordship's
directions the plan received with the
under-acknowledged
Despatch now under
acknowledgement returned.