Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004C00608:section:7:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004C00608
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 7 (pt 2/8)
Character Range: 7361–10046

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.
3. 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.
4. The State shall not pollute and shall protect from pollution the waters of the Queanbeyan and Molonglo Rivers throughout their whole course above the Territory.
5. The State shall grant to the Commonwealth (so far as the same are not already vested in the Commonwealth) without payment therefor areas of land at Jervis Bay described as follows:
    County of St. Vincent, Parish of Bherwerre, area about two square miles: Commencing on the High Water Mark of Jervis Bay at the south‑western corner of portion 30 of forty acres and bounded thence on the east by a line bearing south eighty chains, on the south by a line bearing west one hundred and ninety‑seven chains, on the west by a line bearing north to the aforesaid High Water Mark, and on all other sides by that High Water Mark bearing generally easterly to the point of commencement.
    Eastern Division, Land District of Nowra, County of St. Vincent, Parish of Beecroft, area about five hundred and twenty acres. The Crown lands within the following boundaries: Commencing on the High Water Mark of the South Pacific Ocean at a point bearing north thirty‑three degrees fifty minutes east and distant ninety‑two chains fifty links from the south‑east corner of portion 5 of ten acres and bounded thence generally on the east by that High Water Mark generally northerly to a point due west of the northernmost extremity of the Drum and Drumsticks Islands, thence on the north by a line bearing west to its intersection with a line parallel to and twenty chains in rectangular distance westerly from the High Water Mark aforesaid; thence generally on the west by the aforesaid line parallel to and twenty chains rectangularly distant from the aforesaid High Water Mark bearing generally southerly to a line due west from the point of commencement and thence by a line east to that point.
    County of St. Vincent, Parish of Farnham, area one hundred and three acres. The Crown lands within the following boundaries: Commencing on the High Water Mark of the South Pacific Ocean at a point south twenty‑one chains thirty‑eight links from a point east ten chains from Farnham Trigonometrical Station and bounded thence on the west by a line north thirty chains fifty‑five links, on