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first payment thereof to be made on the 22d day of September next. And it is 

 ordered that the said sixty-two thousand seven hundred and thirty-nine pounds 

 nineteen shillings and two pence bank three pounds per cent annuities, twelve 

 thousand pounds reduced annuities, and sixteen thousand one hundred pounds bank 

 stock, when so respectively carried over, and one thousand seven hundred and 

 ninety-five pounds nineteen shillings and seven pence three pounds per cent annui- 

 ties, residue of the said six thousand eight hundred and ten pounds nineteen shil- 

 lings and seven pence, like annuities, after such carrying over of part thereof as 

 aforesaid, and the residue of the said sum of one thousand three hundred and sixty- 

 four pounds nine shillings and eight pence cash, after the payments thereout herein- 

 before directed (the amount of such residue to be verified by affidavit) , be transferred 

 and paid to Mr. Richard Rush, in the plaintiff's bill named. And it is ordered that 

 the boxes and packages in the master's report of the twenty-eighth day of June, one 

 thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, in the said cause of Hungerford v. Drum- 

 mond mentioned, be delivered into the custody of the said Richard Rush, as attorney 

 or otherwise for the plaintiff; and, for the purposes aforesaid, the said accountant 

 general is to draw on the bank, according to the fonn prescribed by the act of Parlia- 

 ment, and the general rules and orders of this court in that case made and provided ; 

 and any of the parties are to be at liberty to apply to this court as they may be 

 advised. 



Entered: H. H. 



E. R. 



Ricliard 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 obsta- 

 cles 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 invested with the requi- 

 site authority is an indispensable preliminary to arrangements for sell- 

 ing the stock advantageously 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 fulfill my wishes; 

 in which assurance I remain, 



Your obedient servant, RICHARD RUSH. 



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 completed in May, it will 



