462.00 R 29/282a
The Secretary of State to Dr. Areli H. Jacoby
Dear Sir: You are hereby appointed as Technical Adviser to the Unofficial American Delegation to the Reparation Commission at Paris, to represent the interests of the United States Government respecting that portion of Reparation dyestuffs allotted to the United States of America and which are covered by the lists and inventories of the German manufacturers submitted to the Reparation Commission as of August 30th, September 5th, 19th, and 27th, 1919, and those dyestuffs manufactured by the German producers subsequent to February 1, 1920.
Your salary has been fixed at $1,000 per month and actual and necessary transportation expenses in going to and returning from your post of duty abroad, including transportation of your family and effects, and $30.00 per day while at your post of duty in lieu of all other per diem, travelling expenses and expenses on account of subsistence. The aforesaid salary, travelling, and subsistence and per diem expenses shall be paid from those surplus monies which have accrued or which may accrue to the United States Government from the resale of that portion of Reparation dyestuffs allotted to the United States of America as set forth in agreements which are the subject of the Department’s letters of April 10th and July 30, 1920, to the Textile Alliance, Inc. Any payment made hereunder by the Textile Alliance, Inc., shall be credited to it as against its obligations to the United States Government under the aforesaid agreements.
You will receive your instructions from and be responsible to the Secretary of State.
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