correspondence with r. r. and other companies. 751 



Adams Express Company, 

 No. 164 W. Baltimore Street, Baltimore, Md., April 23, 1873. 

 The agents of the Adams and Southern Express Companies will 

 please extend to Prof. S. F. Baird, United States Fish and Fisheries 

 Commissioner, every facility for the transportation from point to point 

 of young fish for the purpose of stocking the rivers of tbe South and 

 Southwest with shad. 



Any attention by the agents and messengers to Professor Baird or 

 his assistants, who will in each case accompany the packages of fish, by 

 the w^ay of securing prompt transmission of them, and the procuring 

 of fresh water along the route during the stopping of the trains, will 

 be doing a public service, and greatly oblige 

 Yours, respectfullv, 



SAML. M. SHOEMAKER, 

 Resident Manager Adams Express Compaiiy. 



Adams Express Company, Baltimore Division, 



Washington, B. C, June 7, 1873. 

 Gentlemen: It is the wish of Mr. S. M. Shoemaker, resident man- 

 ager of this company at Baltimore, that yon will render every facility in 

 your power to the assistants of Prof. Spencer F. Baird, of tbe Smith- 

 sonian Institution, who are engaged in transferring living shad and 

 other food-fishes for introduction in distant waters. 



Any courtesy extended will be greatly appreciated and reciprocated 



by 



Yours, respectfullv, 



G. W. MOSS, 



Acting Agent. 

 To Agents of Adams Express Company. 



Adams Express Company, 

 Office of the General Superintendent, 



59 Broadway, JSTetv York, June 11, 1873. 

 To Agents and Messengers of Adams Express Company: 



The bearer is one of the Commissioners appointed by the Government 

 to stock the western waters with shad, and he is now en route in said 

 capacity. I have to request that you will afford him every facility for 

 the careful transportation of the spawn and small-fry he has in charge, 

 and that you will aid him in every way possible in procuring fresh water 

 and ice, and in such other manner as he may indicate. 



Agents, at points where the Commissioner leaves spawn for deposit in 

 the rivers or other streams of the vicinity, will request the aid of the 

 local authorities, and invite them to witness that the spawn is properly 

 deposited at the earliest possible moment after reception. 



HENRY SANFORD, 



General Superintendent. 



