Melbourne Botan. Garden
27th December 1870
Sir
I have the honor to solicit, that you will be pleased to issue an authority of expenditure for the sum of £47.10. — for wages to gardeners etc., as granted on the Supplementary Estimates for 1870 for this Department, Division No 12 Sub Div. No 2 —, and place the same at my disposal for disbursement.1
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
your obedient servant
Ferd. von Mueller
Director of the Botan Garden
The Honorable the Chief Secretary
William Odgers noted on the file: 'Wages for Decr. Schedule'. M had been in discussion about the amount of money needed to pay December wages; see M to J. McCulloch, November 1870 (in this edition as 10-11-00b) and notes thereto. The amount was approved by Parliament on 20 December 1870 (Victoria. Votes and proceedings of the Legislative Assembly, second session, 1870, vol. 1, p. 121).
Please cite as “FVM-70-12-27,” 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