Schedule 1

First Schedule

AGREEMENT made the eighteenth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and nine, between the Commonwealth of Australia (hereinafter called the Commonwealth) of the one part, and the State of New South Wales (hereinafter called the State) of the other part: Witnesseth that, subject as hereinafter mentioned to the approval of the Parliaments of the Commonwealth and of the State, it is hereby agreed as follows:—

The State shall surrender to the Commonwealth, and the Commonwealth shall accept, for the purposes of the Seat of Government, the territory (hereinafter called the Territory), now being part of the State, described hereunder, namely:—

Counties of Murray and Cowley, area about 900 square miles: Commencing on the Goulburn-Cooma railway at its intersection with the Queanbeyan River at Queanbeyan; and bounded thence by that railway generally southerly to the south-eastern corner of portion 177, parish of Keewong, county of Murray; by the southern boundaries of that portion and portions 218, 211, 36, and 38 generally westerly to the Murrumbidgee River; by that river downwards to a point east of the south-east corner of portion 68, parish of Cuppacumbalong, county of Cowley; by a line partly forming the southern boundary of that portion west to the eastern watershed of Gudgenby River; by that watershed and the eastern and southern watersheds of Naas Creek; by part of the western watershed of Gudgenby River generally southerly, westerly, and northerly to the southern watershed of Cotter River; by that watershed and the western watershed of that river, passing through Mount Murray and through Bimberi Trigonometrical Station, generally northerly to Coree Trigonometrical Station; thence by a line bearing north-easterly to One-tree Trigonometrical Station; thence by the watershed of Molonglo River north-easterly and generally south-easterly to the Goulburn-Cooma Railway aforesaid; and thence by that railway generally south-westerly, to the point of commencement.

The right of the State or of the residents therein to the use and control of the waters of the Queanbeyan and Molonglo Rivers and their tributaries which lie to the east of the Goulburn to Cooma Railway shall be subject and secondary to the use and requirements of the Commonwealth (which are hereby declared to be paramount) for all the purposes of the Territory, and the State shall consent to the construction by the Commonwealth in the State of such works as are necessary for those purposes.

The State shall reserve from sale, lease, and occupation (except with the concurrence of the Commonwealth) all Crown lands within the catchment areas of the Queanbeyan and Molonglo Rivers.