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MAY,*511 
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY 
No •_^_ Bi 
LETTER OF AUTHORIZATION 
Washington, D. C 
liovaafcei* 2, 1S21. 
Under authority conferred upon me by the Secretary of Agriculture 
(L. A. No. 8-Sec., dated July 1, 1921), you are hereby authorized to 
issue Government bills of lading and incur expenses as follows during 
the fiscal year 1922 in the performance of your official duties under 
the appropriation "General Expenses, Bureau of Biological Survey, 1922": 
1. Actual and necessary traveling expenses of yourself and your as¬ 
sistants, 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 miscellaneous expenses as defined in paragraphs 71 
and 72, Fiscal Regulations. 
4. Other necessary miscellaneous expenses. 
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 in¬ 
structions 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 of the Treasury. 
Your permanent headquarters will be vsashXnip’ton D# C# 
Acting Chief of Bureau 
