UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 
ADDRESS REPLY TO 
CHIEF, BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY, 
AND REFER TO 
September 13, 1918 
Dr. Alex Y.'etmore, 
1011 Forum Building, 
Sacramento, Calif. 
In your reimbursement account for tiie period August 1 to 
31, 1918, payable fror authorization IIo.70-3i. (Food Habits of 
Birds and Lanmals), it lias been necessary to suspend the follow- 
ing items : 
August 12. Express shipment, Washington, 
D.C., to Hayward, Cal., 
subvoucher Uo.7, 
August 12, Express shipment, Washington 
D.C., to Hayward, Cal., 
subvoucher Ho. 8, 
1.50 
August 28. Fee for license permitting 
purchase of explosive duck 
bomb. 
25 
The last item is suspended for the reason that there is 
no authority of law for the payment of license fees by the Gov- 
ernment. 
The express shipments should have been forwarded prepaid 
and charges included in the monthly vouchers of the American 
Railway Express Company. As they were sent collect and you were 
obliged to pay the charges, the express company has been request- 
ed to reimburse you for the amount of the two vouchers and include 
these items in their monthly bill. 
