1850, Larmer laid out plans for extensions to the separate settlement areas of 'South Gundagai' and 'North Gundagai', to allow residents to be relocated and overcome the problem of flooding on the river flats. Also in 1850, he made provision for a village site, on the Lachlan River at what would later become the town of Narrandera. In 1851, he surveyed the site of the Roman Catholic church and presbytery in Jugiong. He also laid out cemeteries at Yass and Goulburn, In 1852-1853, Larmer was working on surveying the route of a road from Braidwood to Broulee, which was planned to run via Araluen to the Moruya River. Such a road was not completed until the late 1860s. Instead, the major road to the coast was the Clyde Road (modern-day Kings Highway), which opened in 1858. In 1858, a surveyor Larmer laid out the plan of the gold-mining village of Majors Creek but James Larmer's name was already on the list of those receiving government pensions by October 1857. Majors Creek was the work of his nephew, who was also a surveyor. James Larmer's last field notes date from 1859, and it appears that he retired completely from surveying around that time. Larmer became a Justice of the Peace at Braidwood in 1859. With other JPs, he presided over cases in the town's Police Court, until 1885. His cases included some involving relatives and associates of the notorious Clarke brothers and other bushrangers, who were members of the Clarke-Connell extended family. He was one of the magistrates who, in 1866, committed John Clarke (Senior)—father of the Clarke brothers—for trial for the murder of an Aboriginal man, Billy Noonang. In May 1867, Thomas and John Clarke, the surviving members of their gang, were remanded, at the Police Court in Braidwood, for trial in Sydney. However, it was Larmer's colleague, John William Bunn, who was the magistrate who committed them for trial, although Larmer, possibly, may have been present. In 1860, Larmer was proposed as a candidate for the Braidwood electoral district at the 1860 elections, but he did not stand for election. Aboriginal languages vocabulary The Surveyor-General, Thomas Mitchell, had directed that, where possible, the existing names, in the local Aboriginal language, should be used as the official names of localities and landforms in New South Wales, which then also included what is now Victoria and Queensland. This was for pragmatic