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Treasury. The freight was three-eighths of one per cent.— this bein? the 

 usual charga m the packet-ships-and came to ^393 12^. PrimaSe 

 was £ 19 1 3s. S6' ; and the charges ou brhiging over the Smithsonian boxes 

 (left m the custody of the collector, from whom I had eveiy facility on 

 landmg) were to have been £3 8s. 5d., or thereabouts - ^ 



It seemed to me that it would be best for the bank to pay all these 

 charges, as the most convenient mode of setthng without delay with the 

 ship-owners, to whom I had become responsible by my en^a^elZTwth 

 the captan. m London ; and I have the hope that this Jouile wm le Uhe 

 approbation of the Secretary of the Treasury and yourself. It Lft he 

 gold as secured in boxes at the Bank of England untouched at New 



7ot4"f,hem """'''' ''''^°'°"^' ^"""^^^ ^--^-^- '- ^ffi-ed 

 Somewhat worn down by fatigue since coming on shore, after an un 

 comfortable voyage of squalls, gales, and head-wmds, I ve itu e to Lra 

 ttle lepose at my home before proceeding io Washington, for the pur- 

 pose of making out and rendering to you Sn account of all 'expenses fhat 

 have a ended the i^nal recovery of this fund, of which the LhS Sta es 

 by the niformation I give you in this letter, are now in possession Ii he 

 course of the next week I shall hope to proceed to Washington wih e 

 view stated ; and m order that, mj. account of the ex,?; S beinTfonnd 

 satisflxctory, which I presume to hope will be the ca^e liv Tsk tnlt 

 discharged from all further responsil'ility under the trust I la/e t^'r 

 fornung The nett amount, m dollars, of the fund as I delivered to verto 

 he Lmted States at the Mint, was found to be five hundred and eii^ 

 thousand three hundred and eighteen dollars forty-six cen s So? si s 4? 



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

 The Hon. Johx Foksvth, RICHARD RUSH. ' 



Secretary of State. 



No. 33. 



Philadelphia, -SV/;/e7;z6er 11, 1S3S 

 Sir : I yesterday received a letter from the Secretary of the Treasu'w 

 dated the 7th instant, stating it to be desirablp tli^t tillJ -lieasuiy, 



•the transfer of the Smithsonian fund t^tlt count ^%'^P^ 



operations of selling the stocrirtlu F .1 V i^ ^ ' ''"^^^ /^-'^^^ '^^^ '^^^^^^^ 



