The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Chief Secretary's Office ¶ Melbourne 13th Novbr. 1894. ¶ Urgent ¶ Sir, ¶ ¶ I beg to request that you will be good enough to furnish me as early as possible with full particulars as to the expenditure...

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No.4467, pp. 520-1, unit 105, VPRS 1187/P, outward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office of Victoria. 94.11.13a

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Charles Topp to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1894-11-13 [94.11.13a]. 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/1890-6/1894/94-11-13a-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Chief Secretary's Office

Melbourne 13th Novbr. 1894.

Urgent

Sir,

I beg to request that you will be good enough to furnish me as early as possible with full particulars as to the expenditure for the last financial year of your vote for contingencies, where the items opposite the several amounts do not definitely describe the services on which the vote is to be expended, the particulars to show separately all payments made by way of gratuity or overtime to Public Servants and all payments made to persons employed temporarily and to show under definite headings how the amount voted as Incidentals has been disbursed.

No reply has been found, but M had forgone such sums, paying for them from his own income ; see M to A. McLean, 7 June 1892, and M to T. Wilson, 29 September 1893 (in this edition as 93-09-29a).

I have the honor to be,

Sir,

Your obedient servant,

Charles A. Topp

The [...]

Document is a circular (p. 520) sent to the heads of 15 sub-departments within the Chief Secretary's Department (listed on p. 521). A spece is left empty for the title of a sub-department to be entered.