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V70/6620, unit 466, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria. 70.06.16

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Ferdinand von Mueller to James McCulloch, 1870-06-16. R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora, J.H. Voigt and Monika Wells (eds), Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, <https://vmcp.rbg.vic.gov.au/id//letters/1870-9/1870/70-06-16-final.odt>, accessed June 15, 2026

Botanic Garden
Melbourne, /6/70
1
The day's date of the letter has been left blank.
Sir
I have the honor to solicit, that you will be pleased to sanction the expenditure of the following sums, and place them at my disposal for disbursement, viz.
Salaries
£71.13/4d
Wages
300. ‑ . ‑
Purchase of Plants
20. - . -
Transit & Incid. Exp
30. - . -
Travelling Expenses
10. - . -
Stores
100. - . -
This sum of £100, is required for Stores, as liabilities were incurred at the beginning of the year up to that amount, in anticipation of the same vote as in former years.
2
The amount for 'Stores, timber, Bricks and stationery' voted by Parliament for 1869 was £350; for 1870 £250 was approved (Victoria. Votes and proceedings of the Legislative Assembly, session 1869, vol. 1, p. 50; session 1870, vol. 1, p. 86). In the Estimates published in March by the Macpherson administration, shortly before it lost office to McCulloch's administration in April, M's stores budget was expected to be £350 (Victoria, Parliamentary papers 1870 B 2, p. 12). For the overall impact of McCulloch's budget on the funds available to M, see notes to M to J. McCulloch, 3 May 1870.
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
your obedient servant
Ferd. Mueller
Direct. botan. Garden
The Honorable the Chief Secretary
3
Authority numbers were noted on the file on 27 June.