UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 
ADDRESS REPLY TO 
CHIEF, BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY, 
AND REFER TO 
September 16, 1920 
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Dear kr. Uetmore: 
Replying in part to your letter of August 5, I am 
advised that your letters of authorisation and allotment 
together with the warrant issued by the Treasury Depart¬ 
ment have already been forwarded to you. In this connect¬ 
ion, your letter of authorization issued by the Bureau of 
Biological Survey was #35-Bi, dated July 1, 1920. Your 
letter of allotment was #136, and set up the sum of 
$3520.00, under Symbol #21 for the purpose of carrying 
on your work. Ur. Pfeiffers informs me that the number 
of the Treasury warrant issued to you was 112, dated July 
2, 1920, and covered the following amounts: 
General Expense, Bureau of Biological Survey, 1921 
(Biological Investigations) - ^3520.00 
Increase of Compensation - 220.00 
Total - “ $3740.00 
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In connection with your salary during, the period of 
your absence, I enclose herewith a memoranQUm regarding the 
retirement fund. At the last session oi Congress a pension 
act was iasseu to provide for the retirement of certain em¬ 
ployees of the United States. This act provided that all 
employees of the Government should contribute to the retire¬ 
ment fund from which these annuities were payable. Under 
the circumstances it seems that complications will be avoided 
bv awaiting your return to the Uniteo States before adjusting 
the matter of deductions to be made irorn your salary on t.iis 
account. I believe that you will experience less difficulty 
if you continue as in the past to draw checks payable to your¬ 
self for the full amount of your salary, leaving the adjustmen 
be made after your return. 
Inclosure : 24478 
accounts. 
