CO129-113 - MacDonnell - 1866 [5-6] — Page 297

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paruit of this

Heis Excellency's despatch precisely of a similar chmader to those which lake place annually and which with regard to the Military Cantonments have not been objected to by the Colonial Authorities since 1853 when the lvar

was laid down by

1 Department boundary Sir George Bonham

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2.

The plan mentioned in para: 3 of Sir R. Mae Donnell's despatch must have

bem furnished by the Colonial Surveyor General,

as none

has been supplied from

this office. It is probably a tracing of the Colonial Surveyor General's original

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plan

fisaid

which when the boundary

in 1833 was

prepared and

signed in triplicate by Sir George Bonham,

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and the

the Colonial Surveyor General, Commanding Royal Engineer for the

purpose of bring deposited in the offices of the Commanding Royal Engineer,

the Barrach Master, and the Colonial

Surveyor General, where they now remain. The letter of the Commanding

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Royal Enginar refered to in the same paragraphs simply laid before the Respective officers of the Ordnance for their approut the detailed itwerifition and plan of the boundary of the Military Cantonment, as laid down

by Los George Bonham, and emenred in by Commanding Royal Engineer. It will

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be noticed that the date of that letter is 15th September 1853