Shaping Our Identity: Colonial Government

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Queensland Government Gazette, Saturday 31st December 1859, pp.17-18:

THE ELECTORAL DISTRICT OF THE TOWN OF IPSWICH

Commencing at the north-west corner, 55 links west from a gum-tree marked on four sides at the junction of Mehe Creek with the Bremer River, and bounded on part of the north by a line bearing east 71 chains 5 links to a stake on the Bremer River, and bearing 118 degrees, and distant 21 links from a gum-tree marked on four sides; on the remainder of the north by the north bank of the Bremer River, downwards, to a large gum-tree marked on four sides; thence on the east by a line straight across the river, bearing south 42 degrees west to the termination on the opposite bank of the west side of a road in the eastern suburbs, which divides James Gibbon's 9 acres, by that road, southerly, and further by the southerly extension of said road 167 chains 60 links to a stake on the top of a moderately bold ridge distant 28 links from a dead iron-bark tree marked on four sides, bearing south 34 degrees 40 minutes east: on the south by a line bearing west 83 chains 65 links to a stake on Deebing Creek, 30 links from a large gum-tree marked on four sides, at the junction of a small watercourse bearing south 22 degrees 30 minutes west; on the west by Deebing Creek, downwards, to its confluence with the Bremer River, and by that river, downwards, to the junction of Mehe Creek, as aforesaid.