CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3] — Page 357

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Upon receipt of this letter, H.E. Richard MacDonnell wrote another despatch to the Secretary of State on 4 June 1866.

In it, he combated the argument made by Colonel Yule.

15: In the first place, no perambulation of the property had ever taken place. In the second place, two years after signing of the plan of 1855, the responsible officers of Ordnance admitted that the Ordnance Boundaries at Victoria were the Ordnance Bounds, thus admitting that the land in dispute did not belong to the Military Reserves, the Sunday Store being considerably north of it, or lower down the hill. And in the third place, with regard to the latter dated 15th September 1853, even if it did refer to the Government as having assented to the arrangement of the limits of the Cantonments as therein defined (a statement which could not now be verified), yet no detailed definition of the Sundridge had ever been supplied to the Colonial Government, and the authority of that letter, a copy of which...

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14 354 and contour line woo Ro explicit that a plan was probably considered unnecessary at the time when this area of comparatively small land value. 14 was Upon receipt of this letter, H.E. Richard MacDonnell wrote another despatch to the Secretary of State on 4 June 1866. In it, he combated the argument made by Colonel Yule. 15: In the first place, no perambulation of the property had ever taken place. In the second place, two years after signing of the plan of 1855, the responsible officers of Ordnance admitted that the Ordnance Boundaries at Victoria were the Ordnance Bounds, thus admitting that the land in dispute did not belong to the Military Reserves, the Sunday Store being considerably north of it, or lower down the hill. And in the third place, with regard to the latter dated 15th September 1853, even if it did refer to the Government as having assented to the arrangement of the limits of the Cantonments as therein defined (a statement which could not now be verified), yet no detailed definition of the Sundridge had ever been supplied to the Colonial Government, and the authority of that letter, a copy of which...
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14

354

and contour line

woo

Ro

explicit

that a plan was probably considered unnecessary at the time when this of comparatively small

land

value.

14

was

Upon receipt of this letter Iis

Richard Mac Donnell wrote another

Aspatch to the Secretary of State

in

4:56.47 June

1866.

which he combated the argument

made un

15:

of by Colonel Lowell.

new

In the first place perambulation of the property dained had ever taken place, in the second place twe

the

year

after

segning of the plan of 1885, the respection officers of Ordnance admitted that the Ordnance Bundans

at Victorie

dnes,

were the Ordnance Bounds this admitting that the land in disfente did not belong to the Military Reserves, the Sunday store being considerably north of it, or lower down the hill, and in the third plaw with regard to the latter dated 15th September 1853

1853 even

از

if it did a referent the Gaumes as having envented to the arrangement of the limits of the Cantonments an therein defined, (a statement which could not now be verified) yet no detailed definition of the Sundance had eur been supplied to the Columal Government, and the authority of that

letter a copy of which boT

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