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May 48  9
Chas. Mc Dougall Esqr
Abingdon, Va

Sir,
Fountain Richison (colored) of Lebanon, Russell Co. Va., states that he was employed by you to teach a school in that County, on the 15th of Nov. last, at the rate of $15 per month, and that he taught four months without pay.
Please inform me whether you made such a promise and if so, by whose orders.
Yours respectfully
R. M. Manly
Supt. of Education

see M 2, 1st vol /69