Melbourne botanic Garden
4 July 1862.
Sir
I have the honor to solicit, that you will be pleased to sanction the expenditure of nine hundred fifty pounds Sterling (£950.- .-) out of the wages fund of this establishment for daily labour during the third quarter of the year and out of the same vote the sum of fifty pounds Sterling (£50.- .-) for job labour during the same period, the latter to include some small accounts yet outstanding from the previous quarter.
I beg further to solicit that £40.- .- fourty pounds may be placed at my disposal for incidental & travelling expenses during the third quarter of the year, and twenty five pounds Sterling (£25.- .-) for food and forage.
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
your very obedient and humble servant
Ferd. Mueller
The honorable the Chief Secretary
&c & &1
Approval for M's request was annotated to this letter.
Please cite as “FVM-62-07-04a,” 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