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laid out in permanent improvements for them. There you have the whole matter. If not in the proper shape, please put it so & let us know that there may be no further delay - For two months or more I have been daily looking for the money. 

3d. As to transportation of teachers. In the same letter to Gen Swayne I spoke of the amounts paid for the travelling expesnes of Miss M Hindman $42 & Miss Julia A Boyd to Huntsville, & O.M. Waring to Florence $35.75. These were the actual amts paid to us. But Mitchell afterwards told me you only paid for actual transportation, & I supposed had sent the corrected statement. Indeed I think he did. Miss Boyd was suddenly called home by the death of her mother & could not return & therefore he may have omitted her. I will try to write him immediately on the subject.