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April 22
W.H. Moulton

Dear Sir: Yours of the 19th is at hand. I learn, on inquiry, that $10. has been forwarded you under the name of rent, for March. If anything else has been promised you from the office I am not aware of it. If Maj. Stone has made definite promises of salary, which he cannot meet, I am sorry for it. The Bureau has not a dollar, and never had, which it could pay under the name of salary. Salaries come from a great variety of charitable societies, the matter being arranged between the society and the teacher — we having no knowledge of those arrangements at all.

I wish I had funds to pay salaries, but I have none and for that reason no Bureau officer has been authorized to make definite engagements until he had reported each case here, and received authority to make a bargain. I profoundly regret that expectations should have been raised, without authority, which I cannot fulfil and for which I am not responsible.
Yours Truly
R.M. Manly
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