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Extract from Minutes of the
Executive Council.
23rd December 1899.
Present
His Excellency the Governor.
His Excellency Major-General Commanding, the Troops, Donovans.
The Hon'ble the Colonial Secretary.
The Hon'ble the Acting Attorney General, et Russell.
The Hon'ble J. M. Price.
"It is agreed that the requisite papers with the Surveyor General's latest report upon the Case be forwarded to Colonel Stuart Commanding Royal Engineers for his opinion.
The hearing of the Case having been of considerable interest and having then been of opinion that the laws provide for arbitration...