Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated ActsWhereas by letters patent made 6 June 1859, which erected into the Colony of Queensland the territory described therein, the land boundaries of the colony were defined in part by reference to the latitude 29&#deg; south and by reference to the longitude 141&#deg; east:
And whereas by letters patent made 13 March 1862 there was annexed to the Colony of Queensland the territory lying northward of the latitude 26&#deg; south and between the longitudes 141&#deg; east and 138&#deg; east:
And whereas the difficulties associated with the location upon the surface of the earth of a boundary defined by reference to a parallel of latitude or a meridian of longitude required the delineation and determination of that boundary by marking it upon the surface of the earth:
And whereas pursuant to agreements and arrangements made the locations of the land boundaries of the Colony of Queensland defined in the letters patent by reference to parallels of latitude or meridians of longitude have been ascertained by survey and have been permanently fixed by marking them upon the surface of the earth and those locations have been accepted and acted upon for generations:
And whereas the Colony of Queensland, having become part of the Commonwealth of Australia, is now the State of Queensland: