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records, sowing seeds, building cairns, and marking trees, at as many 

 points as possible consistently with your various other duties. 



With reference to financial subjects, you will be furnished with a 

 letter of authority to give orders on the Treasurer for the payment of 

 any stores or their transport, cattle, sheep, or horses, you may re- 

 quire, and you will not fail to furnish the Treasurer from time to 

 time witli detailed accounts of the articles for which you have given 

 such orders in payment. 



Each person- of the party will be allowed to give authority for half 

 of his salary being paid into any bank, or to any person he may ap- 

 point to receive the same, provided a certificate is forwarded from 

 yon to the eftect that he has efliciently discharged his duty. 



The Committee requests that you will make arrangements for an 

 exact account being taken of the stores, and their expenditure, by the 

 person you place in charge of them. 



The Committee also requests that you would address all your 

 comnuinications on subjects connected with the Exploration to the 

 Hon. Secretary; and that all ]:)ersons acting with you, should forward 

 their conmiunications on the same subject through you. 



You will cause full reports to be furnished by your officers on any 

 subject of interest, and forward them to Melbourne as often as may 

 be i)racticable without retarding the progress of the Expedition. 



The Committee has caused the enclosed set of instructions to be 

 drawn up, having relation to each department of science, and you are 

 requested to hand each of the gentlemen a copy of the part more 

 particularly relating to his department. — I have the honor to be. Sir, 

 your most obedient servant, 



(Signed) John Macadam, M.D., Hon Sec, 

 E.C.R.S.V. 



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