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aud paid to Mr. Richard Rush, in the plaintifi"'s bill named. 

 And it is ordered that the boxes and packages in the mas- 

 ter's report of the twenty-eighth day of June one thousand 

 eight hundred and thirty-one, in the said cause of Hunger- 

 ford vs. Drummond mentioned, be delivered into the cus- 

 tody of the said Richard Rush, as attorney or otherwise for 

 the plaintiff; and, for the purposes aforesaid, the said ac- 

 countant general is to draw on the bank, according to the 

 form prescribed by the act of Parliament, and the general 

 rules and orders of this court in that case made aud pro- 

 vided ; and any of the parties are to be at liberty to apply 

 to this court as they may be advised. H. H. 



Entered: E. R. 



Richard Rush to Clarke^ Fynmore ^ Fladgate. 



May 31, 1838. 



Gentlemen : I need scarcely again make known to you 

 what I have so frequently urged in person since the decision 

 on the 9th instant, viz : my anxiety to have the necessary 

 document from the proper office of the court, by which the 

 Smithsonian fund adjudged to the United States may be placed 

 at my disposal. But, whatever the past obstacles which you 

 may not have been able to prevent, I must ask the favor 

 of your renewed and best exertions for causing me to be put 

 in possession of it at the earliest possible day ; the more so, 

 as we are now at the end of the month, and my being in- 

 vested with the requisite authority is an indispensable pre- 

 liminary to arrangements for selling the stock advanta- 

 geously in June, prior to my embarkation with the fund for 

 the United States. Your past attention to the case is a 

 pledge to me that you will do all in your power to fulfil 

 my wishes ; in which assurance I remain. 

 Your obedient servant, 



Richard Rush. 



To Clarke, Fynmore & Fladgate. 



Richard Rush to John Forsyth. 



London, June 5, 1838. 

 Sir : With all my exertions to have the forms necessary 

 for putting me in possession of the Smithsonian fund com- 



