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d'Affaires. The Department
is of course bound to see that
this appropriation is not
overdrawn in any one year.

An "ordinary" leave
of sixty days, with pay, is
granted you, to be availed of
at any time during the cur-
rent calendar year when the
business of your office will
permit, and you may, of
course spend the allotted time
anywhere you please. You
are not forbidden to come
to the United States within
the 60 days, but formal
permission to do so, with added
transmit time, is withheld
for this year. I am +c,
(signed) W. Q. Gresham