TREASURY DEPARTMENT
[seal] WASHINGTON, May 12, 1911.
Office of
DIRECTOR OF THE MINT
in replying quote initials
My dear Mrs. Smyth:
Your letter relative to the bond payment of
Dr. Smyth is at hand and I have consulted with Mr. R.E.
Preston with regard to the same.
I am of the opinion that your Bill would have to be drawn
up in favor [favour?] of the Doctor.s [Doctor's?] bondsmen,
who paid the money to the government, and as the suit against
the Dr. was instituted in New Orleans, I should think you
could procure all the necessary information from the Courts
there. I have all the papers pertaining to the case before me
but I can not let you have a copy of them without authority
from the Secretary of the Treasury. If you could get the
party who is going to present your Bill to Congress to write
to or call upon the Secretary of the Treasury for copies of the
Settlement papers of the bondsmen of Andrew W. Smythe [Smyth?],
in 1905, I will do anything I can to assist you to carry out
your
wishes regarding the matter, and I hope that you will command
me and let me know your next step. I enclose to you herewith a
copy of the legislative bill releasing the Doctor's bondsmen.
I trust that both the Doctor and yourself are enjoying
good health.
Very truly yours,
B. F. Butler
