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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY
WASHINGTON, D.C.

October 2, 1918.

SPECIAL MEMORANDUM FOR FIELD EMPLOYEES.

This is to advise you that the regular appropriation bill for the Department of Agriculture, for the fiscal year 1919, has now passed both Houses of Congress and been signed by the President, and became a law on October 1, 1918. From October 1, you will therefore be limited in making expenditures only by the amounts covered by your letters of authority and such instructions as have been or may be given you.

Very truly yours,

^[[E J Thompson]]
Chief Clerk and Executive Assistant.