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No. 2837, pp. 972-3, unit 70, VPRS 1187/P, outward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office of Victoria. 85.07.29

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Thomas Wilson to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1885-07-29. 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/1880-9/1885/85-07-29-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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Document is a circular (p. 972) to the heads of 15 departments (listed p. 973) within the Chief Secretary’s Department.
Chief Secretary's Office
Melbourne, 29th July 1885.
Sir
I have the honor to forward herewith, for your information and guidance, a copy of a circular received from the Treasury with respect to the manner in which the amounts added to salaries for Rent and Rations are to be collected and paid in to Revenue and to request you will be good enough to furnish me, as soon as possible with a statement (in triplicate) prepared in the accompanying form of the sums to be paid on account of rent, rations &c by the officers under you.
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient Servant,
T. R. Wilson
The Government Botanist