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is to request you to regard the work done by the bearer as a legitimate part of the operations of your Bureau, and to cause payment to be made for the same, inasmuch as if your employe's had not by the above named accident done the work, the Quartermaster General's employe's would have done it without expense to me, or the colored congregation under my charge.

I am
Yours very Respectfully
John Vaughan Lewis
Rector St. John's Ch.

Washington July 8, 1867