1 packing case (No. 14) Shipping, entering, and clearing 14 packages, at 2s. 6d. Cord and nails for mending do Unpacking and repacking do., and cording, mending, and securing, at 2s. 6d. each £ s. d. 3 6 115 0 3 6 1 15 0 6 19 4 When paid to be immediately exhibited at the Department, where this bill has been made out; by which business will be materially expedited. [St. Catharine Docks, No. 1872, wharfage book, outwards.] Mr. Aspinwall, Dr., to the St. Catharine Dock Company. N. B.-The amount of these charges to be paid to the collector, who is the only officer authorized to receive money on account of the company. 1838. Per Mediator: £ d. S. July 17. [A] 1 to 10, wharfage and shipping, 10 cases, at 2s 11, do. do. 1 case, at 1s.. 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 The invoice having necessarily been made up before the cases were actually shipped on board, the usual charge of ten shillings was inserted therein; and it was not ascertained until after they were shipped that a difference was made with respect to bullion; amounting, in this instance, to eleven shillings, which has not been paid by Mr. Rush, but by Thomas Aspinwall, and by him relinquished. 1 In consequence of the very loose and careless manner in which the boxes were originally packed, and of the damaged state of the packages, this charge was unavoidably incurred to prevent the contents from being ground to pieces and lost on the passage to the United States. 1838. T. Aspinwall, esq., to bullion porters, Dr. July 16. 11 boxes and packing sovereigns, at 3s. 6d.......... £ 8. d. 1 18 6 2 12 6 2 6 4 13 6 C. HARDINGHAM. July 17. For cartage and porterage of eleven boxes of bullion from the bank to the St. Catharine's dock.. Received. £ s. d. 080 HENRY POTTER. Witness: JAMES M. CURLEY. Invoice of eleven boxes of gold coin, shipped on board the ship Mediator, of New York, A 1 to 10. Ten boxes, each containing £10,000 (sovereigns) £ S. d. 100,000 0 0 4,960 8 7 MEMORANDUM.-The sovereigns are packed in bags of 1,000 each, with the excep tion of one, in case No. 11, which contains 960 sovereigns and 8 shillings and 7 pence wrapped in paper, each case being sealed with two seals. JULY 16, 1838. H. Doc. 732-7 Schedule of the personal effects of James Smithson referred to in the bill of costs. Large trunk. Hone in a mahogany case. Box containing sundry specimens of min- Plated wire flower basket. erals, marked E. Brass instrument. Box of minerals, marked F. Box of chemical glasses, marked G. Packet of minerals, marked H. Glass vinegar cruet. Stone mortar. Plated coffeepot. Pair of wine coolers. Pair small candlesticks. Two pair of vegetable dishes and covers. Pair of silver-plated candlesticks and Large round waiter. branches. Pair of silver-plated candlesticks, no branches. Large oval waiter; two small waiters. Two plate warmers. Reading shade. Sundry pamphlets on philosophical subjects, in packet marked A. The like, marked B. Struggles Through Life. Bibliotheca Parisiana. La Platina l'Or Blanc. Contorides des Indiens. Sundry pamphlets on philosophical subjects, marked C. Weld's Travels in North America, 2 volumes. Bray's Derbyshire. Twenty-three numbers of Nicholson's Journal of Natural Philosophy, in a case (D). Memoire d'un Voyageur qui le répose. Hamilton in Antrim. Londres et de ses Environs. Stew on Solids. Essais de Jean Key. Mon Bonnet de Nuit. Domestic Cookery. Catalogue de Fossils des Roches. The Monthly Review, 78 numbers. The Monthly Review, 26 volumes. Philosophical Transactions for the year 1826. Anthologies et Fragments Philosophiques, 4 volumes. Two large boxes filled with specimens of minerals and manuscript treatises, apparently in the testator's handwriting, on various philosophical subjects, particularly chemistry and mineralogy. Eight cases and one trunk filled with the like. Those articles to which this mark (a) is prefixed were not in the trunk No. 13 when it was first opened in the consulate of the United States in our presence. All the linen in trunk No. 13 was transferred from case 7, and sundry articles of plated ware and philosophical instruments, etc., were transferred from case 12. Sundry books, which were tied together, were also put in this case. Richard Rush to John Forsyth. HARBOR OF NEW YORK, August 28, 1838. SIR: I have the honor to report to you my arrival here in the ship Mediator, with the amount in gold of the Smithsonian bequest recovered for the United States. The expenses of every kind incurred by closing the business in London and shipping the gold were paid there; but I have still to pay freight here and primage, and also some other small charges incurred on bringing over the Smithsonian boxes and trunks heretofore mentioned. When everything is fully paid, there will be left in my hands, as well as I can now compute the amount, upward of £104,500; the whole is in sovereigns packed in boxes. The money being consigned to no one here, I must continue to hold it in my custody until I can receive your instructions to whom to deliver it, as provided for by the act of Congress of the 1st of July, 1836. I have the honor to remain, in the meantime, your most faithful and obedient servant, Hon. JOHN FORSYTH, RICHARD RUSH. Secretary of State. Richard Rush to John Forsyth. NEW YORK, August 29, 1838. SIR: On landing from the ship yesterday morning I received the official letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, dated the 20th of July, which had been waiting my arrival here, instructing me to transfer the Smithsonian fund to Philadelphia, to be deposited with the treasurer of the mint to the credit of the Treasurer of the United States, taking duplicate receipts from the former, one of which to be transmitted to the latter. The ship has not yet got into the dock, but the gold shall be sent on to Philadelphia as soon as practicable in the eleven boxes in which it was packed at the Bank of England, according to the instructions I have thus received from the Secretary of the Treasury. I have the honor to remain, with great respect, your obedient servant, RICHARD RUSH. Hon. JOHN FORSYTH, Secretary of State. John Forsyth to Richard Rush. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, WASHINGTON, August 30, 1838. SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch No. 30 of the 28th instant, announcing your arrival in the harbor of |