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As Surveyor General, John Oxley, made a close examination of the Tweed River and Port Curtis, and sources connected that investigation, principally the manuscript journal kept by Oxley, and the published ‘ Narrative ’ of John Uniaeke, who accompanied Oxley, From Oxley ’ s notebook in the Archives Office of New South Wales ( location 2 / 8093 ) the following extract is taken from the entry for 31 October 1823:
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The reef has also been claimed by Tonga since 1972, and Tonga's Surveyor General, Tevita Malolo, told Radio New Zealand that Fiji had never contested Tonga's claim until now.
Bekker, now with General Motors Defense Research Laboratories ( GMDRL ) at Santa Barbara, California, was completing a study for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on a small, unmanned lunar roving vehicle for the Surveyor Program.
Former Ohio Governor and U. S. Surveyor General Edward Tiffin who commissioned the Harris Line survey.
U. S. Surveyor General Edward Tiffin, who was in charge of the survey, was a former Ohio governor.
For unknown reasons, Surveyor General Tiffin ordered the two surveys to close on the Northwest Ordinance ( Fulton ) line, rather than Harris ' line, perhaps lending implicit support to Michigan's claims over Ohio's.
Together with the clergy and Receiver General and Chapter Clerk, various lay officers constitute the college, including the Organist and Master of the Choristers, the Registrar, the Auditor, the Legal Secretary, the Surveyor of the Fabric, the Head Master of the Choir School, the Keeper of the Muniments and the Clerk of the Works, as well as 12 lay vicars, 10 choristers and the High Steward and High Bailiff.
The establishment of a Royal Observatory was proposed in 1674 by Sir Jonas Moore who, in his role as Surveyor General at the Ordnance Office, persuaded King Charles II that the Observatory might be built with Flamsteed employed in it.
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In 1870, Henry D. Washburn, having been appointed Surveyor General of Montana in 1869, organized the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition in Helena to explore the regions that would become Yellowstone National Park.
* Henry D. Washburn, Surveyor General, Montana Territory and commander of the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition to Yellowstone in 1870
The ranges were named in 1836 by Surveyor General of New South Wales Sir Thomas Mitchell after the Grampian Mountains in his native Scotland, but are also known by the name Gariwerd, from one of the local Australian Aboriginal languages, either the Jardwadjali or Djab Wurrung language.
Other defunct statewide elected offices that no longer exist include the Comptroller ( which became Controller in 1862 ), the Surveyor General ( 1849 – 1926 ), and the Clerk of the Supreme Court.
The responsibility for topographic mapping and aerial photography lies with the Surveyor General of Pakistan.
SGP is a civil organization which, for security reasons, is headed by a Surveyor General and works under the strict control of Army General Headquarters ( GHQ ).
Innes-Wilson, a Royal Engineers officer who joined the Survey of India which mapped the subcontinent, was the first Surveyor General of Pakistan.
Organisationally, the SOP is overseen by the Surveyor General ( SG ) who is a direct military appointee and a senior uniformed officer.
The Surveyor General approved the United States survey of Mecosta County on February 22, 1839, and the State Legislature established the county boundaries on April 1, 1840.
In 1637 the Surveyor General of Customs issued a report compiled from accounts of customs due from each port and their " subsidiary creeks ".
In 1806 Nash was appointed architect to the Surveyor General of Woods, Forests, Parks, and Chases.
In the 1880s, the United States Surveyor General for California, Theodore Wagner, built an estate which he named Orinda Park.
In 1714, John Reid, the first Surveyor General of East Jersey, wanted the county seat located in Freehold Township and thus sold the property to the Board of Chosen Freeholders at a bargain price, what may have been the deciding factor in Freehold's competition with Middletown and Shrewsbury for the site.
Testimony in the adjudication of the grant before the Surveyor General confirmed that the town was built in 1822 or 1823 in the place already known by the name Casa Colorado ( Town of Casa Colorado Grant: 12 ).
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It was local resident and District Surveyor John Charlton Thompson who received the directive to survey a plot an area on the South side of the river.
Following the Enabling Act of 1919 control of the buildings passed to a Parochial Church Council ( replaced by the Cathedral Council in 1968 ), who appointed the woodwork specialist John Rogers as Architect and Surveyor of the Fabric.
Fort Davis was established in 1854. The land was leased from Surveyor John James at $ 300 a year.
The trend continued in 2004 when Republican Bill Farnham defeated the Democratic incumbent, Eastern District County Commissioner Gary Carmack, and Republicans Don Mayhew and Loretta Rouse defeated two long-term Democratic incumbents, County Surveyor John Mackey and County Public Administrator Paula Long Weber.
* County Surveyor: John G. Kamer
* County Surveyor: John Smendzuik
Bower, Surveyor John M. Hughey.
Surveyor John Septimus Roe and Governor John Hutt visited the caves in the park in 1841.
Surveyor, John Rennie ( father ) | John Rennie: portrait by Henry Raeburn | Sir Henry Raeburn, 1810
John Denham and then Christopher Wren followed him as King's Surveyor of Works.
Opened in July 1791 and built by local Architect and Essex County Surveyor John Johnson, it features a Portland Stone façade.
Grand Sachem of Tammany Hall John Ferguson became mayor in 1815 but resigned to take the appointment of Surveyor of the Port of New York.
By 1685, Southampton was recognized by the Provincial Council as a township, and the lands within its borders had been allocated to thirteen original purchasers: John Luff, John Martin, Robert Pressmore, Richard Wood, John Jones, Mark Betres, John Swift, Enoch Flowers, Joseph Jones, Thomas Groom, Robert Marsh, Thomas Hould and John Gilbert, whose tracts were delineated on a Map of the Improved Part of the Province of Pennsylvania drafted by Thomas Holme, Penn's Surveyor General.
* John Bogart ( 1836 – 1920 ), New York State Engineer and Surveyor ( 1888-1891 )
Her grandfather, John Taylor, came to Pennsylvania from Wiltshire, England, in 1684, and became Surveyor General of Chester County, which then accounted for about one-third of the colony.
The first road in the area, Jurong Road was cut around 1852-1853, during the time of John Thomson's tenure as Chief Surveyor.
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Surveyor General John Oxley asserted that no river could fall into the sea between Cape Otway and Spencer's Gulf, and that the country south of parallel of 34 degrees was ' uninhabitable and useless for all purposes of civilised men ,' and for the time exploration in this direction was greatly discouraged.
A peace was concluded in 1823 and on 17 July of that year John Rodolphus Kent of the Naval cutter Mermaid from New South Wales, while in the Harbour, took ' the liberty of naming it ( as it has not hitherto been named ) " Port Oxley ", in honour of the Surveyor General of the Colony ' in fact John Oxley ( 1783 / 85 ?- 1828 ).
On 23 October 1823, Surveyor General John Oxley set out with a party in the cutter " Mermaid " from Sydney to " survey Port Curtis Gladstone, Queensland | Gladstone, Moreton Bay, and Port Bowen, with a view to forming convict settlements there ".
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