Chief Secretary's Office
Melbourne 30 June 18841
Memo.
With reference to the return2 required by Section 20 of the Public Service Act 1883 I beg now to state that since returning the proofs for correction on the 6th instant I have been furnished with more definite instructions as to the wishes of the Public Service Board in the matter, and accordingly return the proof for further correction.
It is desired that the return should contain the names of all who were in the Service on the 14th February last, including all who were actually employed on that date and excluding any who have been appointed subsequently and the description of duties is to be a description of the duties performed at that time by the officer concerned.
In the column headed "No of years in service" the length of service is to be expressed in years and completed twelfth parts of a year; thus a service of six years three months & twenty nine days will appear as 6 3/12 years.
In case the proof just returned can conveniently be further corrected in these details I enclose a second copy of the proof.
I beg to request that the final proof may be returned to this office without delay.3
The Government Botanist
Please cite as “FVM-84-06-30b,” 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