Chief Secretary's Office
Melbourne 13th Novbr. 1894.
Urgent
Sir,
I beg to request that you will be good enough to furnish me as early as possible with full particulars as to the expenditure for the last financial year of your vote for contingencies, where the items opposite the several amounts do not definitely describe the services on which the vote is to be expended, the particulars to show separately all payments made by way of gratuity or overtime to Public Servants and all payments made to persons employed temporarily and to show under definite headings how the amount voted as Incidentals has been disbursed.1
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your obedient servant,
Charles A. Topp
The [...]2
No reply has been found, but M had forgone such sums, paying for them from his own income; see M to A. McLean, 7 June 1892, and M to T. Wilson, 29 September 1893 (in this edition as 93-09-29a).
Document is a circular (p. 520) sent to the heads of 15 sub-departments within the Chief Secretary's Department (listed on p. 521). A spece is left empty for the title of a sub-department to be entered.
Please cite as “FVM-94-11-13a,” 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