8th March 1865
I have the honor by direction of the Chief Secretary to request that you will be good enough to furnish this Department at as early a date as possible with the undermentioned Return for the purpose of being laid before the Legislative Assembly in compliance with an Order on the motion of Mr Sands1
Sd J Moore
'A Return shewing the number and names of Civil Servants in your Department whose age exceeds sixty years and whose term of service entitles them to retire from the service'.
Director of Botanic Gardens
No return from M has been found, but no staff at the Botanic Garden needed to be listed.
Text from C659 addressed to the Registrar General, followed by 'Undermentioned Departments called upon to furnish similar Returns' and a list of ten Heads of Department within the Chief Secretary's Department, including M.
Please cite as “FVM-65-03-08a,” 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