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had advanced in value for the last four years?

The trustees of Washington refused to pay the teachers transportation home, and as we sent them, then with the understanding that the Bureau would give them return transportation, it comes rather hard on us, though it was our duty to see that the teachers did not have to pay it.

Very Respectfully,
[[signature]] Robt R. Corson [[/signature]]
Cor Secy

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C. 65 OSED.C. Vol. 1. 1868.

Philadelphia, Pa. June 27th 1868.

Commission. Pa Branch F.U.
Col. R. R. Corson, Cor. Secy.

Acknowledges receipt of letter of the 12th inst. enclosing $12,00.

States that it was understood by them when they took the schools in Maryland, they were to cost them $20,00 each per month, and that the Bureau was to furnish transportation of teachers both ways, but it has cost them nearly one thousand dollars extra to bring their teachers home from the South:— that the trustees of the Washington schools have refused to pay their teachers return transportation, and, as the Society sent them out with the understanding that the Bureau would furnish it, it is their duty to see that the teachers do not have it to pay:— that they have decided not to put up their house on "D" [[?]] St, at public sale until fall.

Recd. O.S.E.D.C. 6/29—68.

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Please note that we don't have to keep line endings the same as in original documents; also we don't need to indicate lines between sections of text. Page 184 is transcribed as "I" St; what letter is correct? -- Beth