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of the Board which he suggested,

tion which seems to have

suggestion

a

subsequently fallen through. At least

I can trace it no

the result of the Correspondence summed up by the Duke of Newcastle in his

further and I find

Despatch No 15 of 27* January 1864

CUD

the conditions on

-/64

Mr. B.

392

J.C.

longer required for

17403/13

R.

ьвові

merely defining which land no Military purposes should revert to

the Colony. In fact a quotation from

the Iliad would have been as

to

any question

now under

apropos

discussion

as

· Moody's letter.

8.

CL

reference to bolonel

I fail equally to gain any information from bolonel Lovell's

Entrand in

note of last July

addressed to the

Surveyor General and referred to by

bolonel Sovell

cus

proving the Surveyor

General's knowledge of the present

Getter puber

firmat 721 Der 766

plans of the Military. I enclose that

note in Original the better to enable

Your Sordship to judge how far it

supports such an

assertion. It is a private note, which never would have been written at all but for the

accidental circumstance of the Surveyor

General wanting

some earth then

lying

on War Department ground.

It

gives

no reason to

suppose that

any

plan

was

then

much

less

designed

matured for pushing forward the

frontage of ground not War Department