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WAR DEPARTMENT
Bureau Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands 
Nashville, Tenn., July 29th 1865.

General:

In compliance with your orders, we investigated, audited and carefully examined the papers and accounts of Lt. Col. James I. Davidson late Superintendent of the Refugee Home at this Post and have the honor to submit the following report in reference thereto.

The total Amount of Cash received is --- $8172.00
His expenditures are ------------------- $8208.04
He has vouchers for -------------------- $8000.14
He has no vouchers for -----------------  $202.90

His vouchers for salaries paid to teachers, motions and employees are not considered by us to be valid in as much as they are made out by himself and purport to be signed by the parties who received the money with the word "signed" prefixed to each signature. He has paid (as per his certificate) to Miss Phidora Turner $150. as salary, but has receipts for only $60. he says he has paid her one months pay in clothing Col. Davidson states that this Miss Turner while employed as a teacher at the Refugee Home at Clarksville under his charge, obtained permission, and came to Nashville to purchase books. While here she boarded at the City Hotel, and on the