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Dec. 23 9

Miss Julia M. Bartlett:

I thank you for your prompt reply to my request. Your Acct. for $104.50 has been forwarded to Washington appd. and will be paid.

Last year, you will remember, the Bureau paid the rent on your school-house, and the Society drew from Bureau also $10. per month for each teacher (yourself and assistants). The The same thing was done for other societies and in other places. But this cannot be done any more, being explicitly forbidden. All societies and all places of course are treated exactly alike in this matter.  

If I pay the rent on your school rooms, then you and your asst. cannot get the $10. per month each. If you or the freedmen pay it, then you can get it. Of course it will better for you to provide for the rent. 

I have arranged to include the rent bills you sent me (Oct & Nov.) in the repairs — so you are relieved from so much. If you take care of it for Dec. and afterward — you will get $20. per month from the Bureau (for both of you) through Dr. Simmons. I have written to him explaining this matter.

I intend to hold on to [[$150.00?]] for a while for Portsmouth in hope that the place will be prepared to use it.

Yours truly
R. M. Manly

Transcription Notes:
ed ( 1) "school-house" is often spelled in these original documents as a hyphenated word, so please watch out for it; 2) also, when reviewing, please read word by word, so that you catch transcription mistakes like "school house" instead of "school rooms"; 3) in last paragraph, does it read $1500 maybe? -- Beth)