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No. 2264, pp. 180-1, unit 21, VPRS 1187/P, outward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria. 70.08.26b

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William Odgers to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1870-08-26 [70.08.26b]. 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/1870-9/1870/70-08-26b-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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Copies of the circular were sent to heads of a number of the subsidiary departments within the Chief Secretary’s Department.
Chief Secretary’s Office
Melbourne 26th August 1870.
Sir,
I am directed by the Chief Secretary to request that you will have the goodness to forward to this office at your earliest convenience an Estimate of your Revenue and Expenditure for the first six months of 1871.
The Commissioner of Public Works being also desirous of obtaining the Estimate of the requirements as regards Works and Buildings for the same period, I have to request you will be good enough him
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sic.
with that from your Department not later than the 30th proximo.
I have the honor to be
Sir
Your most obedient servant
W. H. Odgers
The Director of the Botanic Gardens.
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For reply see M to J. McCulloch, 29 August 1870.