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Colored schools was exhausted, and that he could no longer pay me, or any other teacher but, he said, "good faith required that every teacher be paid until the day he was notified of the discontinuance of his salary" and that I should be paid to the 1st of October. I then, desiring the welfare of the Colored people, came to this place to open a self-supporting school.

Some time since I made out and forwarded to Capt. Buckley my Vouchers for September (Enclosed) which he in good faith approved. They are now returned to me by his successor, Mr H M Bush, with the enclosed communication stating that the Paymaster will not pay the account without explicit instructions from Washington.

In view of the fact that I rec'd no transportation from My home in Ohio to my field of labor, nor commutation of the same; that I afterward expended $15 for transportation while traveling under orders (enclosed you will find our transportation order