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{{Short description|Former limits of location in the colony of New South Wales, Australia}}
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They were defined by the [[Governors of New South Wales|Governor of New South Wales]] [[Ralph Darling]] in 1826 in accordance with a government order from [[Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst|Lord Bathurst]], the Secretary of State. [[County|Counties]] had been used since the first year of settlement, with [[Cumberland County, New South Wales|Cumberland County]] being proclaimed on 6 June 1788. Several others were later proclaimed around the Sydney area. A further order of 1829 extended these boundaries of the settlement to an area defined as the Nineteen Counties. From 1831 the [[land grant|granting of free land]] ceased and the only land that was to be made available for sale was within the Nineteen Counties.
The area covered by the limit extended to [[Taree, New South Wales|Taree]] in the north, [[
The Nineteen Counties were [[Surveying|mapped]] by the [[Surveyor General]] [[Thomas Mitchell (explorer)|Major Thomas Mitchell]] in 1834. The [[scale (map)|scale]] of the map that Mitchell produced was determined by the amount of ship's copper available in Sydney to engrave the map.<ref>''Canberra's Engineering Heritage'', William Charles Andrews, Institution of Engineers, Canberra, 1990, p. 3</ref>
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