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Received of Mr. G. L. Eberhart
Supt of Ed for Ga check for 50 fifty dollars for services rendered as teacher in Freedmans School Lexington Ga
from May the 1st. to June the 30th 1867

July 7th 1867

Lexington Ga July the 8th 1867
Mr Eberhart
sir will you please inform me at your earliest convenience if the school that I have been teaching will receive any assistance from the Bureau please let me know immediately so that I can make my arrangements according. I have thought it best to suspend my labour as teacher during this month but expect to resume it again the 1st of August but as most of the Freedmen of this place are farmers it will be some time before I receive any remuneration (if I do at all) unless assisted by the Bureau as there is none of the Freedmen will be able to pay untill crops are gathered and sold. 

My husband Mr. John T. Maxwell is devoting himself to the work of establishing school buildings at this place but has not been able as yet to