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521

Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
Office Supt. Education, D.C. &c.
Washington, Jany 25th 1870.

[[underlined]] Corson  Col. R. R. [[/underlined]] 
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dr Sir:

If Miss [[underlined]] Johnson [[/underlined]] has not yet gone to Upper Marlboro please tell her to call on me on the way there.  Mrs. [[underlined]] Lowell [[/underlined]] has sent a teacher there, but as it is an important schools and needs an A1 teacher, I shall remove her to Birdsville and would like to see Miss [[underlined]] Johnson [[/underlined]] before she relieves her.

Yours &c., 
Bvt. Maj., and Supt. Education.

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522

Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
Office Supt. Education, D.C. &c.
Washington, Jany 25th 1870.

[[underlined]] Corson  Col. R. R. [[/underlined]] 
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Sir:

[[underlined]] Jas. T. Douglass [[/underlined]] has come here again.  Says he has no money to go home &c.  I have borrowed $5.00/100 to send him to you.  He is entirely worthless, and has already received more pay than he has earned, though he claims pay for December.  Mr. [[underlined]] Crosby [[/underlined]] is absent, and I cannot find that he was included in your check.  If he was - I will make the proper corrections.

Very Respectfully, &c., 
Bvt. Maj., and Supt. Education.

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523

Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
Office of Superintendent of Education, D.C. &c.
Washington, January 26th 1870.

[[underlined]] Cushings and Bailey  Messrs. [[/underlined]] 
Baltimore, Md.

Gentlemen:

Yours of the 21st came during

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my absence from the City.  Mr. [[underlined]] Crosby, [[/underlined]] my clerk is now away, and as he has charge of the teacher's accounts, I can hardly speak with full information, but I can say that any orders for books &c. sent you by teachers under my exclusive control can be honored by you to an amt. not exceeding $20.00/100 per mo., without special orders in each case, provided such accounts are forwarded to me on the last day of each month.  The only teachers to whom this applies are those sent out by the [[underlined]] Pa. Branch F. U. Commission. [[/underlined]]

I can also assure the like amount for teachers sent by the [[underlined]] N. Y. Branch F. U. Commission, [[/underlined]] if the a/cts are sent in by the 20th of each month, and no orders filled during the remainder of the month.

I am gentlemen,
Very Respectfully, 
Your Obd't Servt.,
Bvt. Maj., and Supt. Education.

N.B.  [[underlined]] Mary E. Cornish [[/underlined]] and [[underlined]] Emma J. Whittington [[/underlined]] are Pa. Branch Teachers.

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524

Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
Office of the Superintendent of Education, D.C. &c.
Washington, Jany 26th 1870.

[[underlined]] Monroe  Henry A. [[/underlined]] 
Jamestown, Md.
Westover Station.

Sir:

Yours of the 25th of November is at hand.  If the people of your section want a school, they will have to first buy a piece of land;  then they will have to get all the heavy timber, such as posts, sills, plates, &c., and then raise money enough to erect the buildings.  The land must be deeded to Trustees, (3 or 5) for school purposes, and a copy of the deed sent to this office with an application for aid, when it will be considered.

Yours &c., 
Bvt. Maj., and Superintendent of Ed.