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42-1885

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION,

Washington, D.C., 6 Aug 1887

Sir: 

Enclosed is your account of July 31/87 against the U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM, for Services as Curator for month of July /87 amounting to $90. transferred to official forms, which you will please sign and return to the Smithsonian Institution. Payment therefore will be made as soon as may be practicable. 
The signature should be at the bottom of the page, and should correspond with the name of the individual, or the company, at the head of the account. Signature by Agent will not answer; it must be by the principal.
Nothing should should be written on these blanks excepting the signature. Any vacant spaces will be filled up in this office when payment is made. 
Evidence of authority to sign vouchers for incorporated or unincorporated companies must accompany accounts. Such evidence should be in the form of an extract from the by-laws or records of the company, or association, showing the authority of the officer to receive and receipt for moneys of the company, and giving his name and the date of his election and appointment, which extract must be verified by a certificate, under seal, signed by the president and secretary, or by one of these officers, and not fewer than two of the directors, which certificate must state that such authority remains unrevoked and unchanged. 
If the company have no seal, the extract should be certified as correct by a notary public or other competent officer under his seal. 

Very respectfully, 


Spencer F. Baird, Secretary, K.

Mr. S.R. Koehler
Beach Glen Ave
Roxbury, Mass