Botanic Garden
Melbourne, /6/701
Sir
I have the honor to solicit, that you will be pleased to sanction the expenditure of the following sums, and place them at my disposal for disbursement, viz.
| Salaries |
£71.13/4d |
| Wages |
300. ‑ . ‑ |
| Purchase of Plants |
20. - . - |
| Transit & Incid. Exp |
30. - . - |
| Travelling Expenses |
10. - . - |
| Stores |
100. - . - |
This sum of £100, is required for Stores, as liabilities were incurred at the beginning of the year up to that amount, in anticipation of the same vote as in former years.2
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
your obedient servant
Ferd. Mueller
Direct. botan. Garden
The Honorable the Chief Secretary3
The day's date of the letter has been left blank.
The amount for 'Stores, timber, Bricks and stationery' voted by Parliament for 1869 was £350; for 1870 £250 was approved (Victoria. Votes and proceedings of the Legislative Assembly, session 1869, vol. 1, p. 50; session 1870, vol. 1, p. 86). In the Estimates published in March by the Macpherson administration, shortly before it lost office to McCulloch's administration in April, M's stores budget was expected to be £350 (Victoria, Parliamentary papers 1870 B 2, p. 12). For the overall impact of McCulloch's budget on the funds available to M, see notes to M to J. McCulloch, 3 May 1870.
Authority numbers were noted on the file on 27 June.
Please cite as “FVM-70-06-16,” 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