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�Ladies' College Hospital,
Halifax, N. S.
December 15, 1917

From: State Surgeon, Maine National Guard.

To: The Adjutant General, Maine National Guard.

Subject: Payment of Volunteer Nurses in the Halifax Disaster.

1. The doctors and nurses from Waterville returned home this
morning. They will have served nine days by the time 
they arrive home.

2. The official secretary of American Red Cross sent down
a communication in which he gave a Schedule of Rate of
payment for various services rendered in emergency. It 
seems the National Red Cross Association has a fixed schedule
of rates.

3. We informed him that all the State of Maine services which
had been furnished, had been furnished as voluntary services
and that there would be no payroll submitted for payment
to the Red Cross Association either for doctors or nurses.

4. I am submitting for your consideration and I hope approval
the suggestions that a cheque for Twenty-five Dollars be 
sent to -
Miss Catharine O'Brien - Waterville
Miss Anne Dunn " [Waterville]
Miss Helen Quinn " [Waterville]
Miss Elisabeth Russell " [Waterville]

I think it should be sent them if the Governor in COuncil
will vote it, not as payment for their services, but as a
mark of appreciation from the state for having volunteered
during this disaster.

Gilbert W. Elliott,
Major, Medical Corps, N.G.