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692 Bureau Refugees Freedmen and Abandoned Lands Office Superintendent of Education D.C. Washington March 14th 1870. [[underlined]] Mitchell Rev. W. F. [[/underlined]] New York. Dear Sir Swan has just sent me the enclosed order to pay his book account. The account can be sent to me or to Messrs Cushing & Bailey Baltimore, Md. Yours Respectfully Bvt. Major and Supt. of Education. [[line across page]] 693 Bureau Refugees Freedmen and Abandoned Lands Office Superintendent of Education D.C. Washington, March 14th 1870. [[underlined]] Corson Col. R. R. [[/underlined]] Philadelphia, Pa. Dear Sir I am obliged to leave town Wednesday morning to be gone some two weeks, so if you have not mailed the check today, please it payable to the order of the Genl. Supt. Mr. J. W. Alvord. Yours Respectfully Bvt. Major and Supt. of Education. [[line across page]] 694 Bureau Refugees Freedmen and Abandoned Lands Office Superintendent of Education D.C. Washington, March 15th 1870. [[underlined]] Somers Isaiah W. [[/underlined]] Forktown, Md. Dear Sir Please forward a report of your school at Dames Quarter made out on one of the blanks which were sent you a few days since. Very Respectfully Yours Bvt. Major and Supt. of Ed: per J. Q. Crosby [[end page]] [[start page]] 695 Bureau Refugees Freedmen and Abandoned Lands Office Superintendent of Education D.C. Washington, March 13th 1870. [[underlined]] Somers Mr. Isiah W. [[/underlined]] Forktown, Md. Dear Sir, Yours of 15 is received. I will send you blanks to make out the returns on. A "paying school" is one that numbers at least 30 scholars. We shall be obliged to close all schools that do not have that number. Yours Respectfully Bvt. Major and Supt. of Education. [[line across page]] 696 Bureau Refugees Freedmen and Abandoned Lands Office Superintendent of Education D.C. Washington, March 16th 1870. [[underlined]] Stickney Geo. W. Esqr. [[/underlined]] Washington, D.C. Dear Sir, Please disburse enclosed check for $918.90/100 in the following manner, viz:- Wm. Ballantyne | Cash | $39.38 Cushing & Bailey | Check | 28.53 Jane Knight | " [[ditto for: Check]] | 20.00 Mary E. Cornish | " [[ditto for: Check]] | 20.00 James H. Brooks | " [[ditto for: Check]] | 20.00 Levin W. Gaines | " [[ditto for: Check]] | 8.95 Jane S. Allen | " [[ditto for: Check]] | 20.00 Florence K. West | " [[ditto for: Check]] | 20.00 Susan Morris | " [[ditto for: Check]] | 20.00 Matilda Bond | " [[ditto for: Check]] | 20.00 Noah J. Lewis | " [[ditto for: Check]] | 20.00 Jane Knight | " [[ditto for: Check]] | 20.00 James T. Bracy | " [[ditto for: Check]] | 20.00 Phinia C. Crisfield | " [[ditto for: Check]] | 20.00 Annie R. Thompson | on Cash | 19.90 To be deposited. Mary E. Lyon | Check | 10.29 Pauline Allen | " [[ditto for: Check]] | 20.00 Emma J. Whittington | " [[ditto for: Check]] | 20.00 R. C. Moss | " [[ditto for: Check]] | 20.00 Mary E. Watson | " [[ditto for: Check]] | 20.00 Wm. H. Foster | " [[ditto for: Check]] | 22.20