PERSONAL ACCOUNT. 



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I think it unnecessary to malce a requisition on you f<>r a further prosecution of the work 



until the above demands are satisfied. 



I am, sir^ very respectfully, your obedient servant. 



W. H. EMOT^Y, 



Bt. MoJ. U. S. A.J Chief A.^fronomer Survey B, C. 



J, R. Bartlett, Esq., U. S. C'^mmi^sioner. 



couhi to satisfy the various demands of Iho men and 



barrarV^ 



commissioner would strike the boundary 



There I awaitoii hia 



arrival, occupying my time by establishing an observatory, to be used in the event of the 

 resumption of the work. 



On the 20th of December the commissioner arrived ; and finding tliat no iwprurity could be 

 given for the payment of the debts ali^ady contracted, or for those r\^fnr^ry to bo contracted 

 in the future pro*^rution of the work, I did not bf?dtate to arail myself of the authority ffranled 

 by the Secretary to su^end the work of the survey of the river. A resolution of Cungrcbs had 

 already suspended the survey wc6t of the river. 



After turning over all the property and papers of the commiimion, except the instruments 

 and notes of the survey, I r-^paired ii> Washington city, and commenced the computation of the 



field-work as far as it had been completed. 



sum 01 monev to com 



of so much of the Bio Bravo as constituted the boundary, and to prosecute the office-work of the 

 survey. The commission was immediately reduced and reorganized. A new commissioner 

 (being the fourth) was appointed. 



The parties were organized by me, and placed in the field in less than a month ; and by the 

 middle of December, 1S33, all the field-work was completed within the time and for a less 

 amount than had been estimated. 



The following is the organization under which the w^ork of the old boundary was concluded : 



Robt. B. Campbell, U. S. commissioner. 

 Lucius Campbell, secretary. 



W. H. Emory, chief astronomer and surveyor. 

 G. C. Gardner, assistant. 

 J- H. Clark, do. 



Lieut. ]Michler, corp*? Topographical Engineers, in charge of surveying party. 

 E. A. Phillips, assistant. 

 Ed. Ingraham, do. 



Chas. Radziminski, in charge of surveying party. 

 Thos, W. Jones, assistant. 

 Jas. H, Houston, do. 



Arthur Schott, in charge of surveying party. 

 M. Seaton, assistant. 



J. E. Weiss, do. 

 Capt. George Thom, corps Topographical Engineers, was left in charge of the office-work 



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