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from the Government.

When I left Mr Rays office, I counted the money which was not contained in the paper that Mr Ray handed me and found that there were only $29.85.  I returned to Mr Ray's office and told him that here were only $29.85 in in that portion of the money, when he told me that there were $39.85 in that portion of the money and that the white man with me must have taken the $10.00.

I deposited the money in the paper in the Masonic Savings Bank.  The man in the bank counted it and said there were $200.00 in the paper

Before coming to Mr Ray's office Mr Carr told me not to deposit my money in the Freedmen's Bank because, as he said, it was not a safe bank and was liable to go down at any time.  While in Mr Rays office Mr Carr made the same statement to me and advised me to put my money in the Masonic Savings Bank, to which place I went on leaving Mr Ray's office and deposited the money in the paper