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4th. I never heard of the six month's rule for making out the 
reports and never assented to it. 
6th. I worked hard the full time claimed, and have received pay 
for six months under protest that that acceptance of six months pay 
should not vitiate my claim. 
In regard to interest on the amount claimed in my application to 
the Commissioners, I will not urge it^ still I think I ought to be en- 
titled to it. 
Gentlemen — I performed all the labor, hard mental labor, for the 
time claimed, and had no source of income for the support of my 
family that was not deducted by my own free will, unsolicited by any 
one. The wcrk is before you, (one of the volumes of Natural His- 
tory of New-York,) and by examining its contents, you can see that 
much time and mental labor were bestowed on it, for which, in a 
pecuniary point of view, I have been inadequately remunerated. 
I have the honor to be. 
Your obedient servant, 
W. W. MATHER. 
(E.) 
Jackson C. iJ., Ohio, May 14, 1850. 
Gentlemen — I have this day received the Albany Evening Journal 
of April 27th, in which is a published notice by you, under authority 
of " an act to provide for the completion of the Geological Survey 
of the State, passed April 10th, 1850," requiring claimants to pre- 
sent their claims for services and expences attending the publication 
of the Natural History of the State. 
My claim of |3,689 j\% was presented and, in part, paid on the 
10th of October, 1843, at the treasury ; and the $900 receiA^ed thereon 
was paid under my protest that the payment should not destroy nor 
vitiate my claim on the State. 
That account with Gov. Bouck's remarks thereon, and my protest, 
were filed in the Treasurer's office on the 10th of October, 1843, and 
