page_title: Seat of Government Acceptance Act 1909
section_title: Boundaries
hierarchical_section_title: Seat of Government Acceptance Act 1909 / Boundaries
caption_attribution_description: English: Map showing the only part of the ACT border to be determined by property boundaries, a small section in the south east between the Queanbeyan-Cooma railway line and the eastern watershed of Gudgenby River. The ACT is highlighted in red. The red line in the top right is a proposed addition to Commonwealth territory which did not come about. Note three different sections of the ACT border: Near the top right of this map, the border is the Queanbeyan-Cooma railway line In the centre shows the properties mentioned in the Seat of Government Acceptance Act, 1909: "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" (The Murrumbidgee River divides the Parish of Cuppacumbalong in the County of Cowley, on the left, from the Parish of Keewong in the County of Murray, on the right - this boundary is marked with x-x-x lines. The parish names are both visible here, but cut off. ) In the bottom left of this map, the boundary uses the watershed (note how it passes through the property boundaries here)
context_page_description: The Seat of Government Acceptance Act 1909 is an Australian Commonwealth Government act, that in conjunction with the Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909 transferred land from the state of New South Wales to the Commonwealth for the creation of the Federal Capital Territory.
  The act was signed on 13 December 1909 by the Governor-General Lord Dudley. The Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909 was passed by the New South Wales government the following day, creating a site for the national capital in law.
context_section_description: The act specified the land to be surrendered to the Commonwealth as being bounded by (described in clockwise direction):
  The Goulburn to Cooma railway line in the east,
  Part of the Parish of Keewong in the County of Murray to the Murrumbidgee River, down the river a short distance (to the north), and then portions of the Parish of Cuppacumbalong in the County of Cowley.
  The eastern watershed of the Gudgenby River
  The eastern and southern watersheds of Naas Creek
  The southern and western watersheds of the Cotter River (which passes through Bimberi Peak), and north to Mount Coree
  A line north-east from Mount Coree to One-Tree Trigonometrical Station
  The watershed of the Molonglo River south-east to where it meets the railway line.
caption: 1909 cadastral map showing the small part of the border near 35°35′14″S 149°7′0″E﻿ / ﻿35.58722°S 149.11667°E﻿ / -35.58722; 149.11667 determined by property boundaries in the parishes of Keewong, County of Murray and Cuppacumbalong, County of Cowley
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