UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY 
WASHINGTON 
FOREIGN SEED AND PLANT INTRODUCTION 
A UgUSt 30J 1921 . 
Mr.' Joseph. . Rock, 
c/o American Consul, 
Rang 0 0 n, Burma. 
Bear Mr. Rock: 
The Office of Records advised me yesterday that 
you should pay your salary, starting August 16 . Up to 
this date it has "been paid on the Washington pay roll, 
and when you left I "believe you were under the impression 
salary from August 16 
u 
hat we were to obtain this salary from August 16 to 
August 19 , inclusive, and you start payment of your salary 
day you sailed. 
on til 6 
$ 
•4* "L. 
Ull 
■ 7 * r"\ 
However, in 
govern yourself 
salary, "by yours 
submitting your 
view of the 
accordingly, 
elf, beginnin 
account, kind 
above instructions, kindly 
starting payment of your 
g August 16, 1921. Also in 
.ly include the following as 
cash payments on your voucher: 
Pullman to Hew York 
Railroad fare to Hew York 
Steamship ticket to Liverpool 
^ *5 7 1 ? 
■A-’ .A * ( J 
8.14 
226.00 
These should be treated as cash payments on your 
account, and the adjustment of the funds d&f’to your re¬ 
funding this amount before you left will have to be &c- 
complished on the account current which accompanies your 
account, when we receive the denosit slip back from the 
yr *iu ilt« 
Treasury. 
I sent you a check by Special Delivery covering your 
salary from August 1 to August 15 to the Prince George 
Hotel, Hew York, but up to this writing I have not received 
any acknowledgment of this check from you. I have been 
wondering if this check reached you before you sailed. 
Very truly yours. 
JLlt/PH 
