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Physical location:
E1652/1/1878/2799, National Archives of Australia, Darwin. 78.01.30aPreferred Citation:
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Surveyor General of South Australia, 1878-01-30 [78.01.30a]. R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora, J.H. Voigt and Monika Wells (eds), Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, <https://vmcp.rbg.vic.gov.au/id//letters/1870-9/1878/78-01-30a-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026
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Annotated: 'Copy for Adelaide'.
APPLICATION FOR LEASE OF PASTORAL LANDS, UNDER ACT 48, 1876.
Term
twenty five
Years
from 1st April 1878
Application
N
o
.
2799
of
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Space left blank.
containing
130
square miles £3
:5/ -
Dated
30 January
1878
I Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller
of
Melbourne Victoria
do hereby make application for a Lease of a certain portion of the Waste Lands of
the Crown in the Northern Territory of South Australia, the situation and boundaries
whereof are shown in the Plan hereto annexed, to which
I
have affixed
my
signature; and
I
make the above claim under clause 4 of the Regulations now in force (dated 28th December,
1876).
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See notes to M to the Surveyor General of South Australia, 30 January 1878.
F. J. H. von Mueller
by his agent F Krichauff
Witness—
James Binnie
___________
Telegram under clause 5, sent to Northern Territory, dated
30th January
1878
Approved by Government Resident,
vide
Telegram dated
1878.
___________
Forwarded to Treasury for receipt of first year's Rent, viz.:— £
3 : 5/ : –
[illegible initials] pr
Surveyor-General.
25/4
1878
___________
Received the above amount of £
3
:
5/:
–
this
25th
day of Apl 1878.
C.R.T.
pro Treasurer.
______________
being the holder of a preferential right to a lease of Run No.
, do solemnly declare that the said Run has been stocked, and continues to be stocked
to the extent required by clause 2 of the Regulations under "The Northern Territory
Land Act, 1876."
(Signature) __________________
Declared before me at
this
day of
, 18 .
(Signature) _______________ J.P.
Near the Mouth of the Roper
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Image courtesy of the National Archives of Australia.
In the original sketch the vertical lines are approximately 7 cm (slightly less that 3 in) long. Given the area specified in the application, the sketch therefore does not conform
to the instruction concerning the scale to be used. As the number ‘2798’ indicates,
the land here applied for adjoined that applied for in M to the Surveyor General of
South Australia, 30 January 1878.
SCALE:— Four miles to one inch
I
accept the above diagram as
my
act and deed.
F. J. H. von Mueller
by his agent F Krichauff