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[[letterhead, 2 columns]] [[column 1]] BOARD [[line]] Col. S. C. LYFORD, War Dept., [[italics]] Chairman. [[/italics]] Adm'l THORNTON A. JENKINS, Navy Dept. Hon. R. W. TAYLER, Treasury Department. Hon. JOHN EATON, Interior " Dr. C. F. MACDONALD, Post Office " WILLIAM SAUNDERS, Esq., Agricultural Dept. Prof. S. F. BAIRD, Smithsonian Institution, and Commissioner of Food Fishes. WM. A. DE CAINDRY, [[italics]] Secretary [[/italics]]. [[line]] Col. JOSEPH S. CONRAD, U.S.A., [[italics]] Disb. Officer. [[italics]] [[/column 1]] [[column 2]] ^[[244]] INTERNATIONAL EXHBIITION, 1876. OFFICE OF THE Board on behalf of U. S. Executive Department [[italics]] No. 1725 G Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. [[/italics]] JULY 20TH, 1875. [italics]] 187 [[/italics]][[/letterhead]] PROF. S. F. BAIRD, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. SIR : IN ORDER THAT I MAY BE ABLE TO MAKE TIMELY REQUISITIONS ON THE TREASURY FOR FUNDS FOR YOUR DEPARTMENT, TO BE PLACED IN THE HANDS OF THE DISBURSING OFFICER, I WOULD THANK YOU TO KEEP ME ADVISED OF THE PROBABLE AMOUNT OF FUNDS NEEDED BY YOU, AT STATED TIMES. RESPECTFULLY, YOUR OBEDIENT SERVANT, ^[[signature]] SVT. - LIEUT. - COL., U. S. A. CHAIRMAN OF BOARD.