Melbourne, 2/2/77
Sir
I have been requested by the Trustees of the Royal Park to solicit that the Honorable the Minister of Lands may be pleased to consider the adaptability of the byfollowing rules and regulations1 for the protection and management of the Royal Park and, in the event of these meeting with the Ministers approval, to ask that they may receive departmental legality under the 108th section of the Land Act of 1869, and be published in the Govt Gazette2
I have &c
Ferd von Mueller
Hon Sec. Trust Royal Park
The Chevalier
W H Archer
Secretary for Lands3
At their meeting on 30 January 1877, the Trustees of Royal Park received a letter from the Secretary of Lands presenting to them the Crown Grant of the Park, and adopted a code of rules and regulations for the management of the area. Following a discussion of their power to enforce such regulations, they agreed to rely on the authority of the Board of Land and Works, and accordingly to seek the Board's authorization for the regulations they had adopted.
See Victoria, Government gazette, 1877, p. 403 (with amendment on p. 469).
For reply, see W. H. Archer to M, 1 March 1877.
Please cite as “FVM-77-02-02,” 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