try yielding herbage, than pursue any
route which the Committee might be able to sketch out from an
imperfect map of Australia.

The Committee intrusts you with the largest discretion as regards
the forming of depots, and your movements generally, but request
that you will mark your routes as permanently as possible, by
leaving 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
require; and you will not fail to furnish the Treasurer from time
to time with 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
appoint to receive the same; provided a certificate is forwarded
from you to the effect that he has efficiently 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
communications on subjects connected with the exploration to the
Honorary Secretary; and that all persons acting with you should
forward their communications 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 practicable without retarding the progress of the expedition.

The Committee has caused the inclosed 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 honour to be, Sir,

Your most obedient servant,

(Signed) JOHN MACADAM, M.D.,

Honorary Secretary, E.C., R.S.V.

Robert O'Hara Burke, Esquire.

Leader, Victorian Exploring Expedition.

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APPENDIX B.

VICTORIA: By the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith.

To our trusty and well-beloved The Honourable SIR THOMAS SIMSON
PRATT, K.C.B., The Honourable SIR FRANCIS MURPHY, Speaker of our
Legislative Assembly, Th