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Acknowledges favor of yesterday with enclosed accounts. Renewed request for monthly statement of disbursements. Comment on travel in June with statements enclosed. Have again written Livingston on subject of a meeting and necessity of choosing counsel.

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Checks enclosed for dividend declared yesterday. According to order your share was paid to Messrs. Prime Ward & Sands. Comments on urgent need for the Company to appoint counsel. Discussion of the business with mention of Capt. Center. Remarks on high temperature.

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Suggestion that the arduous duty which the Captains Are now performing four nights in the week without rest is too much and that therefore each boat should have during the warm months a clerk or assistant to relieve them. The Commodore has several times paid the passage for William to come down and help him, the duty is too much.

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Informs that Master Montgomery Livingston, to increase the turmoil, had started the Olive Branch for Rhode Island in opposition to the Fulton Company. Evidence indicates that Livingston is the dupe of Hoffman, Gibbons and Bartholomew and this is a measure to bring a point forward which they think will render the grant odious, namely running merely through our waters from one state to another without docking at New York.

Scope and Contents: Refers to favor of 16th. Lists aids or clerks for the captains. Comment on fact that Lynch had written, in presence of Mr. W.L. to Mr. Oakley who has agreed to serve as counsel and that he would be here to meet Mr. Emmet between this and 27th inst. The Fulton Company has not been consulted. Engagement of Oakley presumably is by order of R.L. Mr. Dale will not be here until last in the fall. Reports difficulty in preventing a sale of all Mr. Fulton's interest in the...

Scope and Contents: Information to effect that, as a result of consultations, recommendation &c. of Mr. Colden, Mr. W. Livingston, Mr. Emmet and yourself, by direction from our president, Mr. Oakley has been engaged as counsel to replace Mr. Pinkney. Discussion of Oakley's conference with Emmet end of the argument or case of the North River Steam Boat Company. Emmet employed by both companies, North River end Fulton, unlike Oakley, will not distinguish between our right to...

Scope and Contents: Letter of 16th inst. just received, had been left in Post Office at Hudson. Report of procedure involved in securing Oakley to assist Emmet as counsel according to Lynch's advice of early June, including approbation secured from Emmet, Colden, Walter Livingston and yourself. To have interview with Emmet on or before 27 instant. Retaining fee of $300. and $500 more provided Oakley should proceed to Washington suggested as appropriate. If successful, directors have...

Scope and Contents: Comment upon the counsel, Mr. Oakley, his fee, interviews with Emmet, Lynch &c. with statement that no further business is at hand and no meeting of the board will be required. Rumor of yellow fever epidemic false or denied. City (N.Y.) reported by Board of health to be perfectly healthy despite four or five deaths from a fever on Rector street. Discussion of business, possible repairs of ships. Attempt being made to popularize trips to the Catskill Mountains by...

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Refers to letter, partly quoted herein, received from Rhind who agrees with h1m that a meeting of directors will not be required before autumn. "Messrs. Livingston And Colden agreed to selection of Oakley as counsel And Townsend wrote Lynch that he preferred Oakley. Oakley here now and has received fee of $200 (I intended $300). Emmet pleased with selection."

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Report of the fever in New York City (Greenwich street, Rector street, Broad street) still considered as not contagious by the Board of health and there is no basis for considering it to be yellow fever.