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in Vide Gove to Sec of Sta

1.56-77 June.

the paper been sufficiently large as ins

this instance the Plan includes the

whole Island .

4. The dotted line showing

the

Western Boundary terminates precisely

Orv

the Spot muated B on the Plan of

Cantonments signed by the Governor,

the Royal Engineer and the Surveyor General in 1856 and a

which was

Copy of

forrrarded to Your Lordship's

predecessor with my Despatch N° 26

of 28th last April . The dotted Line

on the Ordnance Map shorring

the

Eastern Boundary corresponds in a

similar

with the Boundary

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shown on the Plan above referred to-.

5. It therefore appears that when

the Boundaries of the Cantonments weres

defined, in 1856 there

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intention

of changing those, which had existed

on the East and West of Cantonments

since 1845. Had such alteration been.

contemplated the Old Boundary

Lines.

would not have been simply Copied

on to the New Plan, which was intended

thenceforth to fix the limits of Cantonments : Therefore if the whole length of the Eastern and Western Boundaries be shown the utmost limit that can be assigned for a Southern boundary connecting

shown