14 July 1858
With reference to your Report for June1 in which you recommend that the office of "Bailiff" connected with the Garden be abolished I am to inform you that there is no such appointment in the Estimates as that of Bailiff — The man you allude to must be paid as a Gardener or Laborer & as you have the entire control of this class you require no authority from this office to enable you to carry out the arrangement you propose.
signed J Moore.
The Director of the Botanic Gardens
Please cite as “FVM-58-07-14,” in Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, edited by R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora†, J.H. Voigt† and Monika Wells accessed on 24 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/58-07-14