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

General:
In compliance with your order, we investigated, audited and carefully examined the papers and accounts of Lt. Col. James J. 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 $8005.14 
He has no vouchers for $202.90

His vouchers for balances paid to teachers, Matrons 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 Phedora 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 this Refugee Home at Clarksville under his charge, obtained permission, and came to Nashville to purchase books. While how she boarded at the City Hotel, and on the

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I cannot figure out what the word after teachers is supposed to be, but I believe everything else is correct. Edited: its 'Matrons', corrections