From Ferdinand von Mueller to the Surveyor General of South Australia   30 Jan 1878

NORTHERN TERRITORY

APPLICATION FOR LEASE OF PASTORAL LANDS, UNDER ACT 48, 1876.

Term twenty five Years from 1st April 1878

Application No. 2800 of1

containing 90 square miles £2 :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).2

F. J. H. von Mueller

by his agent F Krichauff

Witness—

James Binnie

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Telegram under clause 5, sent to Northern Territory, dated 30th January 1878

Approved by Government Resident, vide Telegram dated 1878.

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Forwarded to Treasury for receipt of first year's Rent, viz.:— £ 2 : 5/ : –

[illegible initials] pr. Surveyor-General.

25/4 1878.

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Received the above amount of £ 2 : 5/: – this 25th day of Apl 1878.

C.R.T.

pro Treasurer.

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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 River

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diagram

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

Space left blank.

See notes to M to the Surveyor General of South Australia, 30 January 1878.

Image courtesy of the National Archives of Australia. 78-01-30b_image01.jpg

In the original sketch the vertical boundary is 7 cm (slightly less than 3 in) long.

Annotated: 'Copy for Adelaide'.

Please cite as “FVM-78-01-30b,” in Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, edited by R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora†, J.H. Voigt† and Monika Wells accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/78-01-30b