Is that the officers to whom the appointments have been offered decline & accept them without some modification of the terms which in accordance with your own views, were thought proper for acceptance? I should be glad if you were furnished with Junior Ads to the Inquiry of offering to these gentlemen suitable quarters within the mint and also to whether it would be advisable to hold out to them additional inducements to take service under the foreign government, the certainty of prospective advancement to the Salaries which it is proposed to assign.
I have authorized ...