Office of Lands and Survey
Melbourne. 21st Decr. 1869.
Sir,
I am directed by the Honorable the Commissioner of Crown Lands and Survey to request you to call on Mr. Ferguson1 to prepare for transmission, through you, to this Office, a Return of the number of persons employed in connection with your Department, specifying the nature of the work upon which they are respectively engaged, with a statement of any changes Mr. Ferguson may have to suggest.
Mr. McKean, finding on enquiry, that it has hitherto been your practice to engage and dispense with men, has desired me to state that, in future, all engagements, dismissals &c., must be sanctioned by the Ministerial Head of your Department.
Applications for employment on your staff must be forwarded to this Department, with report or recommendation thereon.
I have the honor to be,
Sir
Your most obedient Servant,
John L. Lewis
Dr. F. Von Mueller
Government Botanist,
Botanic Garden.
William Ferguson.
Please cite as “FVM-69-12-21,” 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