10 SMITHSONIAN BEQUEST. 



panying act of Congress, to execute to and deposit with the Secre- 

 tary of the Treasury, with good and sufficient securities to his 

 satisfaction, a bond or bonds, in the penal sum of $500,000, for the 

 proper performance of those duties and for the faithful remittance to 

 the Treasury of the United States of such sum or sums of money or 

 other funds as you may receive in virtue of said bequest. 



The compensation to be allowed you for your services in this capac- 

 ity will be at the rate of $3,000 per annum for your personal services 

 and at the rate of $2,000 for all contingencies except the law expenses, 

 compensation to begin from the day you report yourself ready to 

 enter on the duties of the office. An account of the law expenses, 

 with vouchers, will be required. 



A letter of credit on M, de Rothschild, the banker of the United 

 States at London, authorizing him to pay your drafts for compensa- 

 tion and for the necessary expenses actually incurred in the prosecution 

 of this claim, is also inclosed, limited to $10,000, being the whole 

 amount appropriated by Congress for that object. 

 I am, sir, your obedient servant, 



JOHN FORSYTH. 



RICHARD RUSH, Esq., etc. 



Richard Rush to Clarke, Fynmore & Fladgcute, 



PORTLAND HOTEL, GREAT PORTLAND STREET, 



LONDON, September 14, 1836. 



GENTLEMEN: Referring to your correspondence with the charge 

 d'affaires of the United States in Juty, 1835, on the Smithsonian bequest 

 to the United States, 1 beg leave to inform you that I have arrived here 

 with full power from the President, founded on an act of Congress, to 

 assert the right of the United States to that bequest and receive the 

 money. I should be happy to have an interview with you on this sub- 

 ject, to which end I ask the favor of you to call upon me on Friday 

 morning at 11 o'clock, or, should that be inconvenient to you, at such 

 other time, near at hand, as you will have the goodness to name. 

 I remain your most obedient servant, 



RICHARD RUSH. 



Messrs. CLARKE, FYNMORE & FLADGATE, 



Solicitors, Craven Street, Strand. 



Richard Rush to John Forsyth. 



LONDON, September %4, 1836. 



SIR: I had the honor to inform you on the 31st of August of my 

 arrival at Liverpool, having embarked in the first ship that sailed 



