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No. 31. 



New York, Jiugust 29, 1838. 



Sir : On landing from the ship yesterday morning, I received the offi- 

 cial letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, dated the 20th of July, which 

 had been waiting my arrival here, instructing me to transfer the Smith- 

 sonian fund to Philadelphia, to be deposited with the Treasurer of the 

 Mint, to the credit of the Treasurer of the United States, taking duplicate 

 receipts from the former, one of which to be transmitted to the latter. 



The ship has not yet got into the dock, but the gold shall he sent on to 

 Philadelphia, as soon as practicable, in the eleven boxes in which it was 

 packed at the Bank of England, according to the instructions I have thus 

 received from the Secretary of the Treasury. 



I have the honor to remain, with great respect, your obedient servant, 



RICHARD RUSH. 



Hon. John Forsyth, 



Secretary of State. 



No. 32. 



Philadelphia, Sej)te?7ibcr 4, 1838. 



Sir : I was yesterday honored with your letter of the 30th of August, 

 acknowledging my No. 30 from the harbor of New York, and tender my 

 thanks for your kind congratulations on my return to my own country, 

 and on the success of the public business confided to me. Your letter 

 went on to New York, as directed, but was returned ; and I received it at 

 my home, near this city. 



My No. 31, written after I had landed, will have informed you that 

 I had then received the instructions of the Secretary of the Treasury to 

 which your letter refers, and I have since been in correspondence with 

 him. Owing to the delay in getting the ship into the dock, I was not able 

 to leave New York with the gold until the 1st of this month, when I ar- 

 rived with it, accompanied by two agents from the Bank of America, that 

 institution having, at the request of the Secretary of the Treasury, obliging- 

 ly aftbrded me every facility in its power towards the business I had in 

 hand. I did not, however, feel at liberty to withdraw my own personal 

 superintendence from the operation of transferring the gold, until I saw it 

 deposited at tlie Mint. Thither I immediately had it conveyed on reach- 

 ing this city on the 1st instant, the director and treasurer of the Mint 

 having been in readiness to receive it under the previous information of 

 its intended transfer, which I had requested the bank to transmit. The 

 entire sum contained in the eleven boxes which I delivered to those two 

 officers of the Mint on Saturday, was £104, 9G0 8*. 6d. — the whole in 

 English sovereigns, except the change ; and 1 have now the satisfaction of 

 informing you that official receipts of this amount from my hands have 

 been forwarded to the Treasury Department. 



The excess of this sum over that which 1 had computed in my No. 30 

 as the probable amount to be left in my hands, arises from tiie president 

 of the bank having undertaken, at my suggestion, to pay the freight and 

 other shipping-charges due at New York ; the bank to be repaid by the 



