To Richard Smith
Baltimore 20 Septr 1828
Sir
As the calls of the Chesapeak & Ohio Canal Co. will probably continue to be for monthly payments by the stock holders,1 I am anxious, on account of my long & frequent absences from home, to make some provision by which the sums which shall be required of me may be paid without my immediate agency at the respective times designated. But I do not know how this is to be contrived; and if you will have the goodness to suggest a plan which may answer, you will much oblige me. my intention is to continue making deposits in your bank until my entire sub<s>cription is placed there. Will it answer for me to forward a power of attorney to the Treasurer of the company, authorising him to check in my name on that fund to answer the calls on me as they respectively become due? or will you do me the favor to accept of such a power, the mony being thus placed under your control as it may be wanted? In case you should advice the first plan, be so good as to inform me who is the Treasurer. Excuse the liberty of this application, & believe me to be very respectfully Sir yr mo. ob. Servt
Bush. Washington
P.S. Being thus far on my way to my Circuit, you will please address your answer to Philadelphia.
Source Note
ALS, PHi: Conarroe Autograph Collection. BW addressed the letter to "Richard Smith Esq. Cashier Branch bank U.S. at Washington Dist. of Columbia." The letter was postmarked in Baltimore on 20 Sept., and endorsed.
1. In place of "stock holders" BW first began to write "subsc..." but crossed it out.
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