Ferdinand von Mueller

Melbourne Botanic Garden,

February 11. 1865

Sir,

Having observed by the public prints

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At its meeting of 30 January 1865, the City Council agreed to a report of the Health Committee to lease the southern portion of Yarra Park for six months (Age (Melbourne), 31 January 1865, p. 7); tenders for a six-month lease were invited by advertisement in Argus, 7 February, 1865, p. 3 and reinserted on 8 February, 11 February and 14 February.

that the City Council have determined upon letting the grazing of the southern portion of Yarra Park, I have the honor to request that you will cause to be reserved a right of passage for carts at all times into the Northern portion of the Botanic Gardens situate adjoining to Yarra Park and to which portion of the Botanic Gardens it is not possible to enter with carts by means of the public road unless by passing through a part of the Yarra Park

I have also the honor to bring under your notice the fact that (3½) three and a half acres or thereabouts of the ground proposed to be let by the City Council, has been granted by the Goverment for the extension of the northern portion of the Botanic Garden before named and that it is my intention to have the said piece of ground fenced in during the ensuing three months

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E. FitzGibbon to M, 1 March 1865 is the reply.

E. G. Fitzgibbon Esqr

Town Clerk

Melbourne