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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
Office Chief Q.M. and Disbursing Officer State of North Carolina.
Raleigh, N.C., April 8, 1868.

Capt. Allan Rutherford
Wilmington N.C. 

Captain
Your telegram is just received The money for School House was sent on receipt of vouchers. Such expenditure of money is always uncalled for and such telegrams, will not be permitted to be collected here. 

I wish you would purchase and send to me by express of some Ship Chandlery a truss for a mast for Halliards about 3/8in diameter

Very Respy
Your Obt Srvt
Thos P Johnston
Bt. Lt. Col. Chf Q M, D.O.



Transcription Notes:
Chandlery=In laymen’s language, a ship chandler is a person (or sometimes a group/agency) that totally deals in supplying required commodities for a shipping vessel and its crew. Halliards=In sailing, a halyard or halliard is a line (rope) that is used to hoist a ladder, sail, flag or yard.