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whether he could provide them with a school from which the Teacher could draw $20 or $25. Mr Kimball it appears did not clearly understand the requirement, and knowing as I suppose he did, that I had been employed by that body, still supposed that I yet was, and that they only desired another locality for me.

Though it was understood between the Pa Freedmen's Commission and myself, that I was to act independent of them farther than that they would assist me in getting a school and getting to it.

But when I reached Washington, and saw Mr. Kimball he rather led me to believe that my salary was to come from the Bureau. Upon further investigation I found that neither were answerable to me for pay for services, so that I must depend wholley and