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was unanimously resolved to urge the Board of Ordnance to 

 proceed with its completion, with as little further delay as 

 possible, and that upon a scale of six inches to a mile. 



" This resolution was accordingly communicated to the 

 board ; but the memorialists were informed that it rests with 

 your Lordships alone to set aside or modify the present ar- 

 rangement for completing what remains of the survey on a 

 scale of one inch to a mile. 



•' The one-inch scale being considered by the memorialists 

 so entirely useless for all practical purposes, the matter was 

 again brought forward at their Michaelmas meeting, held on 

 5th October last, when (in consequence of the above infor- 

 mation) it was resolved, on the motion of his Grace the Duke 

 of Buccleuch and Queensberry, to present this memorial to 

 your Lordships in support of the early completion of the 

 survey of Scotland on the large scale ; at the same time, 

 calling attention to the peculiar advantages which a survey 

 of the county of Dumfries on this scale would confer, as in 

 comparison with one on the reduced scale. 



" The memorialists are humbly of opinion, that six-inch 

 maps of the counties of Scotland would be much more useful 

 for all public, local, and private purposes, than plans on the 

 one-inch scale ; and indeed, that the latter would be even of 

 less service than plans already existing ; while the difference 

 of cost, having regard to the superior advantages of the large 

 plans, would not be so great as to justify a departure from 

 the system pursued in the survey of the United Kingdom up 

 to a very recent period. 



" The larger maps, with the levels inserted upon them, 

 would be highly useful for all purposes connected with engi- 

 neering ; the formation of railways, canals, roads ; the con- 

 veyance of water to towns ; sewerage ; the reclamation of 

 marshes ; and the improvement of waste lands ; the collec- 

 tion of correct agricultural, mineral, and other statistics, in- 

 cluding a correct census ; the procuring of correct geological 

 and hydrographical surveys ; the valuation of property in re- 

 ference to sales and to public and parish assessments ; the 

 management of estates ; the identification and registration 

 of different properties, and in various other ways ; for most 



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