Ferdinand von Mueller

1

G. Sprigg to M, 20 July 1865 (in this edition as 65-07-20a) was a previous request to call such a meeting.

August 9th [186]5

2

editorial addition.

Sir

I have the honor to inform you that it was on the 21st of May last that I had an interview with Mr Hodgkinson for the purpose of requesting his advice as to the best means of checking the excessive and […]

3

illegible.

traffic passing through the Royal Park and I then understood Mr Hodgkinson to say that at present the Trustees had no power to frame final bye laws but that if they would request the Board of Land and Works to proclaim the Park as a reserve under the "Amending Land Act" then the Board would confer this power upon the Trustees and the Trustees could legally frame such bye laws as they might deem necessary.

4

Bye-laws recommended by the Acclimatisation Society were enclosed in G. Sprigg to M, 28 November 1865. The Trustees recommended regulations to the government in M to J Grant, 24 January 1886, and they were published in Victoria government gazette, 13 February 1866, p. 381. They did not give power to prosecute to an officer of the Trustees or the Society, but to 'the nearest Bailiff of Crown Lands'. A notice, dated 30 April, appointing Sprigg a Bailiff of Crown Lands 'in and for the Royal Park' was published in Victoria government gazette, 6 May 1866, p. 987.

To Dr Mueller F.R.S.

Hony Secretary to Trustees of Royal Park.