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in remarks in answer to Gov. Bouck supplementary to my account 
filed on the 10th of October, 1843, numbered 144, and now in the 
Comptroller's office before referred to. 
Now that funds have been appropriated for the liquidation of such 
claims, 1 trust that this claim may be allowed and paid. 
I have the honor to be, 
Your obedient servant, 
W. W. MATHER. 
To Christopher Morgan, Secretary of State, 
T. RoMEYN Beck, Secretary of Regents of the University, 
(F.) 
To the Honorable Christopher Morgan and T. Romeyn Beck : 
Gentlemen — The undersigned begs leave to submit to you his claim 
against the State of New-York for payment for services rendered to 
the said State in the prosecution of the work of compiling the Geolo- 
gical survey, &c., of the State, as authorized by the Legislature. 
The undersigned commenced work upon the said work on the 1st 
of March, 1836, and concluded his labors on the first of January, 
1849 ; and was actually engaged in the prosecution of the work un- 
der the employ of the State as assistant to Dr. Emmons, who had 
charge of the work, six hundred and twenty days, actually laboring 
on an average, fourteen hours per day during that time. The under- 
signed is of opinion thdt two thousand dollars is no more than a fair 
compensation to him for the services that he has rendered to the 
State in the compilation, &c., of the said work ; and therefore pre- 
sents this, his claim, to you, for that amount. (As to price, see let- 
ter of Professor Horsford, annexed.) 
In the above estimate and claim, the undersigned makes no claim 
for any portion of the time accredited to him by Dr. Emmons from 
March 1st, 1846, to January Istj 1847, which time is mentioned by 
Dr. Emmons in vol. 1, page 7, of survey, as being 300 days ser- 
vice, as he did not consider himself in the employ of the State during 
that period, and is willing to let the services thus referred togjo to the 
credit of the doctor for the amount he has received from him, $275, un- 
