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[marginalia] 50/4439 - 4th May 1850

The Surveyor General to the Colonial Secretary, forwarding Description of Quarantine Station at Moreton Bay ................ (One Enclosure)

Surveyor General's Office

Sydney 30th April 1850.

No 50/246.

Sir,

In attention to your letter of the 23rd ultimo No. 50/191 wherein, with reference to my report of the 27th of December last No. 49./307, under Blank Cover, you transmitted to me an Extract from the Minute of the Executive Council No. 50./8. on the subject of a Quarantine Station at Moreton Bay and requested me to furnish a description of the ground recommended by the Council for the purpose in question: I have the honor to forward herewith the description required, and to state that it would have been forwarded earlier, but that a reference as ^ [added sideways] (to) the situation

[notes in left margin]

For Ex'e Council

[initials] ChFR

............. 7th

[in another hand]

M. 9,050.

50./1953.

B.C. 7 May 1850

[initials] N.C. [?]

[in a third hand] Noted

Executive.

50/168 ~ 8 May 1850.

[in a fourth hand]

Laid before the Executive Council

.... 14 May 1850 Minute No. 50/18.

[initials] JWM [?]

[bottom of page] M 9198

[bottom-left corner] Ent'd

situation of “Canaipa" was necessarily made to the Assistant Surveyor at Brisbane.

I have the honor to be

Sir,

Your most obedient Servant,

[signed] T. L. Mitchell

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Enclosure in the Surveyor Generals Letter

No. 50/296 - of 30th April 1850 to the Colonial

Secretary.

Description of the ^ [added above] (proposed) Quarantine Ground

at Moreton Bay

The Northern portion of Stradbroke Island, bounded on the East and North by the Sea from a point due East of Mt. Hutton to Amity Point, at the South entrance to Moreton Bay; on the West by the Waters of Moreton Bay to a point about two miles South of "Canaipa" and due West of Mt. Hutton, and thence on the South by a line bearing due East to the Sea Coast aforesaid.

Laid before the Executive Council

14 May 1850 Minute No. 50/18

[initials] JWM [?]