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TWO SPECIAL SURVEYS.
A notice dated March 4th, 1841, was gazetted in Sydney to the following
effect:
"Any Holder of a Land Receipt to the extent of not less than five
thousand one hundred and twenty acres may, if he think fit, demand a
special survey of any land not hereinafter excepted, within the
district of Port Philip, whether such Land Receipt be obtained in the
manner pointed out in the 'Government Gazette' of the 21st January
last, or granted by the Land and Emigration Commissioners in London.
"Not more than one mile of frontage to any river, watercourse, or lake
to be allowed to every four square miles of area; the other
boundaries to be straight lines running north and south, east and
west.
"No land to be taken up within five miles of the towns of Melbourne,
Geelong, Williamstown, or Portland.
"The right of opening roads through any part of the land to be
reserved for the Crown, but no other reservation whatever to be
inserted in the Deeds of Grant."
The Port Albert Company took up land, under the above conditions,
between the Albert and Tarra rivers. It was in Orr's name, and is
still known as Orr's Special Survey. A surveyor was appointed to
mark and plan the boundaries; he delegated the work to another
surveyor. Next a re-survey was made, then a sub-divisional survey,
and then other surveys went on for fifty years, with ever-varying
results.
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