DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

WASHINGTON, D. C.

Nov. 18, 1891.

My dear Professor:

I received your letter of Oct. 29th requesting to have Mr. Bostwick reimbursed his railroad fare to Lusk, Wyoming, and return, but the trouble is that the funds of last year from which the account should be paid, is exhausted. Then again, a part of the journey was made over a bonded railroad which I am prohibited by law from paying in cash. Mr. Bostwick should have been provided with a regular transportation request from this Office, which would have saved his paying out his private cash, and then the accounts could have been provided for and settled through this office without any difficulty. I am at a loss to know just how we can settle the account, but as soon as the gentleman who has charge of railroad matters at the Treasury returns from his leave, I shall endeavor to arrange for the settlement of the fare home in some way or other - the outgoing fare I cannot pay for the want of funds.

I have received another account of yours from the Fremont, Elkhorn, and Mo. Valley R.R. Co. for freight on 20 boxes of fossils, in last fiscal year, amounting to $47.87 which I have paid and charged to geology.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

DIVISION OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

NEW HAVEN, CONN.

June 29, 1892.

Hon. J. W. Powell,

Director, U. S. Geological Survey.

Sir: -

Referring to our conversation last Friday, June 24th, in which you stated the necessity of taking five hundred dollars from the salaries of my men to meet the payment of the freight bills then due for fossils collected by my parties in the West, I beg to say that after careful consideration of the matter I have decided to pay the amount myself, and enclose herewith my cheque for five hundred dollars ($500.00) payable to Mr. McChesney. Will you kindly have him use this amount in payment of the above freight bills, and send to me the receipted bills thus paid?

Very respectfully,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

WASHINGTON, D. C.,

May 23, 1893.

Prof. O.C. Marsh,
New Haven,
Conn.

Sir:

Please find enclosed vouchers in favor of Fremont, Elkhorn, and Mo. Valley R.R.Co. for $82.44; and Smedley Bros. and Co. for $387.46 which have been settled this day by transmitting Treasury drafts Nos. 8302 and 8303 on the Assistant Treasurer of the U.S., New York.

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