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1 item (enclosure to Governor Stevenson's despatch of 5 September 1859) extracted...
Catalogue reference: MPG 1/509
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This record is about the 1 item (enclosure to Governor Stevenson's despatch of 5 September 1859) extracted... dating from 1859 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1859
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1 item (enclosure to Governor Stevenson's despatch of 5 September 1859) extracted from CO 167/413. 'Plan of Mauritius to accompany the Surveyor General's report on Lighthouses dated 7th July 1859. A. No. 269. J R Mann, Surveyor General'. Plan showing the range of the Flat Island light, of the Canonnier Point light and of proposed lights at Port Louis, Morne and Isle of Pass. Scale: 1 inch to about 8.25 miles. Compass indicator. Survey Office, 12 July 1859. Drawn by H Langlois. (Signed) Th[omas] Corby, government surveyor.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- 36 cm x 23 cm
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 3. Africa, ed P A Penfold (London, 1982), entry 1518
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