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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OE AGRICULTURE 
BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY 
Letter of Authorization. No. ^®®**®^* 
Mr. Alex Wotmore, 
Assistant Biologist. 
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Washington, D. C., 
May 6, 1915. 
Under authority contained in the Secretary’s letter 
No. 8 Sac., dated July 1, 1.914 , you are hereby authorized to 
incur such expenses as may be necessary, in accordance with 
the Fiscal Regulations of the Department, for the purpose 
stated, and during the period named below, not to exceed 
| 790,00 
, to be paid from the appropriation "General Ex- 
penses, Bureau cf Bio logical Survey , 1915.” (investigating Disease 
of Wild Ducks in Halt Lake Valley). 
To proceed from Washington, D. C. , on or about May 10, 1919, to 
Ogdon. Utah, and perform necessary travel in the SKX State of Utah during 
the remainder of the fiscal year 1915, for the purpose of continuing in- 
vestigations in relation to the mortality among wild ducks, which has 
occurred during the past four or five seasons. You are further authorised 
to hire temporary quarters for carrying on those expnriments, to hire 
temporary assistants (subject to the rules of the Civil Service Cotrtnission) 
to pay for the transportation and subsistence df such assistants, to 
purchase spec iaona of ducks, to purchase material for coops, cages, and 
temporary building for field observations, to purchase field supplies, 
and to incur such other miscellaneous expenses as may be found necessary 
in the carrying out of this work. Upon completion of your investigations 
you are directed to return to your official station, Washington, D. C. 
Mo expense for freight chargee must be incurred hereunder* 
Your permanent headquarters will be Washington, D. 0. 
A true copy: 
. C&j Q/T'h A-\ , 
Chief Clerk and Executive Assistant 
