Authorities in behalf of this special portion of it, as it would they have been seen that although the area referred to in the was office Weller to the Colonial office Houghing 703 the 6th September 1876 has been included in the Cession, the Colonial Government has surrendered to the War Department, along other portions of the same road, areas considerably wider in extent.
3. You will see be a glance at the accompanying plan of the entire road, the areas the Colony has relinquished in favor of the Military Authorities coloured red, and those it has taken from them colored green, and you will notice by the preponderance of red over green that Military interests have certainly not suffered by the deviations from the line which the configuration of the hills has forced upon it.
4. His Excellency The Governor is well aware that the position of the boundary agreed to by Sir John Pakington in War Office letter to Colonial Office Houghing undated of the search 1868 was purely approximate. In the War Office sketch plan enclosed in that letter and subsequently transmitted by the Duke of Buckingham to the Colony, it is to be noted that due care was taken to write the word "Approximate".
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