Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated ActsPreamble
Whereas the want of a sufficient survey-force in this Colony has
heretofore rendered it impossible to ascertain with accuracy the proper
boundaries of several grants of land; and whereas many deeds have accordingly
been issued, in which the land has been described, either by marks or
measurements which on more accurate survey are likely to prove in some degree
erroneous, or by measurements to be made of certain distances in certain
directions, according to the compass; and whereas it is expedient that all
such descriptions should, with as little delay as possible, be corrected or
carried into effect, by the erection of visible landmarks upon the several
lands under the direction of the Surveyor-General of this Colony: