Form Bi-358 
March, 1923 
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 
No.. -Bi. 
LETTER OF AUTHORIZATION 
Alexander mm t 
Assistant Biologist# 
Under authority conferred upon me by the Secretary of Agriculture (L. A. 
No. 8-Sec., dated July 1, 1923), you are hereby authorized to incur expenses 
as follows during the fiscal year 1924 in the performance of your official 
duties under the appropriation "General Expenses, Bureau of Biological Survey, 
1924": 
1. Actual and necessary traveling expenses of yourself and your assistants, 
between official stations and points throughout the United States, including, 
when the cost of travel is reduced thereby, mileage for use of personally owned 
automobiles at the rate of 7 cents per mile. 
2. Hire of temporary assistants, subject to civil-service rules. 
3. Station and field expenses as defined in paragraph efr, Fiscal Regula¬ 
tions, including the special items enumerated in the last section of said para¬ 
graph . 
4. Other necessary miscellaneous expenses. 
Object of travel: 
Travel entirely outside of your district must be under instructions from 
the Chief of Bureau. You will be allowed actual subsistence expenses, not to 
exceed $5.00 per day, while absent from official headquarters. 
Subsistence expenses incurred by your assistants traveling under instruc¬ 
tions from you will be paid from sums allotted to you for this fiscal year. 
All expenditures hereunder must be in strict conformity with law, the 
Fiscal Regulations of the Department of Agriculture, orders of the Secretary, 
and decisions of the Comptroller General. 
Your permanent headquarters will be WasMngtOn, D.C. 
▲ true eopy: 
Acting Chief of Bureau. 
UOVKIINMENT rRINTiNG OrFICK 
