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778

Sept 22d.

Gentlemen
Your com enclosing bill [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] against the Bureau contracted while Gen Tillson was in charge of its affairs at Memphis Tenn is recd & Gen T. directs me to say to you that he has no funds which he can appropriate to the payment of this bill of printing and that he has forwarded it to Maj Gen Howard Comr at Washington "with the recommendation for that this bill be paid."  You will probably hear from it through the Bureau officer in Memphis. 

Respy Your Obt Servt
W W Deane
Bt Maj & AAG

Mess Blelock & Co
No 315 Main St
Memphis 
Tenn

Transcription Notes:
unsure of second word in paragraph