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that all War Department land showed be marked by War Department Boundary

Stines.

But the land in question is not in the poofession of the War Department may become

In a future contingency it may

so for a time, but at present it is not so

and indeed this Government is about

to erect a

Police Station on the site, as

sandlimed by

fir Hercules Robinson

and made Knowww

by you

to Colmel

Mordy Commanding Royal Engineer.

The long mooted question of

Military property

Anit

AVIA

Military Reserves

· finially settled by the Home Government

a

dence between the balmial

Correspondenc

ww

and War

offices

which reached this.

Government in Deepatches from the

Secretary of

State

for

the Colonies aris 187

of 26th October 1863 and 150 of 10th November 1862, of which Despatches the substance was communicated to the Military Authorities in the Colony

Original

The result was a

plan of which the

your office is signen

by Governor Sir Hercules Robinson, Major General Brom, alle Clevaly Sun yor General and Captain Brine then Commanding Royal Enginur. In that plan the whole position is noematety defived

to the spots on which the Boundary Stones are to be placed.

even

A reference to the site in question the Plan shows no mark of Boundary