From: The Inspector General of Penal Establishments
To: Colonial Secretary
Date: December 1854
As the Corporation quarries are now being extended to within a very short distance of the buildings at the Collingwood Stockade, I deem it very desirable that the six acres proclaimed as a House of Correction should be correctly marked out to ascertain whether or not they are encroaching. I do myself the honour therefore to request that the Surveyor General may be instructed to forward a surveyor to the locality in question to point out to the Superintendent (who will have them correctly marked) the boundaries of the reserve and that I may be furnished with a tracing of same.