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of the Military Cantonment, as laid down by

tor Gorge Bonham, and concurred in by the Commanding Royal Engineer. It will be noted that the

4.

and

date of that letter is 15th September 1853.

The date of the record plan signed in triplicate by the Governor, The Commanding Royal Engineer, the Colonial Surveyor General, is 19th September 1853, which would allow sufficient time to obtain the approval of the Respective Officers, and to prepare the drawings.

5. That the record plans now in existence, are copies of that referred to in the Commanding Royal Engineer letter of 15th September 1853 is manifest

from

from the letters of reference, and the dimensions coinciding exactly with

those entered in the letter.

6.

It is true that on account

of the paper not being sufficiently large the plan does not show the

boundary quite up to the 300 feet contour, but those parts of the

Eastern and Western Boundaries, which could be included, are

very

distinctly marked by a red line drawn from the points D and B to the Streams, precisely as described in the Commanding Royal Engineer's

The method adopted for

defining the upper part of the boundary by magnetic bearing

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