Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2021L01306:reg:15:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2021L01306
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 15 (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 43666–46463

15   Godden Mackay Logan, 2012.

    >        BMF9: Isolated artefact recoded in 2003.39 No description details provided. Located to the west
    of BM5.16

  Vicinity of the International Sculpture Park and Old Canberra House:
    >        Black chert core recorded in 2018
    – well worked, 38.5 x 29.5 x 19.5
    with 20% remaining.
    >        Silcrete flake recorded in 2018
    – retouched edge.

  Both these artefacts were located at the base of a slope which has undergone extensive erosion of the topsoil.17

  ANU Campus:
    >        5 scarred trees situated throughout the campus.

2.5  First Settlement to Federal City

  The land on which the Institute of Anatomy was eventually built formed part of the first European settlement of the Canberra district. In late 1823, stockmen employed by Joshua John Moore, a clerk to the Judge-Advocate in Sydney, arrived in the district with a herd of cattle and occupied a tract of land between Mount Ainslie, Black Mountain and the Molonglo River. The stockmen erected huts and stockyards on the land, specifically on the site of what later became the Royal Canberra Hospital. In October 1824, Moore obtained a ticket of occupation for the land and just over two years later took up an option to purchase an estate amounting to 1,000 acres. During the 1830s, Moore had a cottage erected on the property – also on the later site of the hospital – even though he did not reside there.

  The economic depression of the early 1840s seriously damaged Moore's financial position, forcing him to sell his 'Canberry' property in 1843. The purchaser was Lieutenant Arthur Jeffreys, an officer of the Royal Navy who married one of the daughters of Robert Campbell of Duntroon. Jeffreys named the property 'Acton' and, although he and his descendants did not live there, the Jeffreys family was to retain ownership of the land for almost eighty years. Arthur Jeffreys himself leased the cottage on the property to the Church of England, which used the building as its local rectory. This arrangement continued until 1873 when the Church erected a new rectory building. The Jeffreys family then leased the property to Arthur Brassey who used the property as a grazing run. Brassey remained in occupation right up until the Commonwealth resumed the land for the federal capital in 1911, giving Brassey the dubious distinction of becoming the first grazier to be displaced by the government's acquisition of the Federal Capital Territory. The resumption was contested by the Jeffreys family, but the dispute was settled in November 1912.18

  Preparations, meanwhile, were being made for the establishment of the new federal capital. In May 1912, Walter Burley Griffin's scheme had been chosen as the winner of the design competition for the proposed