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promise to pay me when the work was done. At the same time I agreed with him to do whatever Mason work there was to be done, and make them a present of it, as my portion of a subscription which they were then taking up among their friends, for the benefit of the Church, which cost me about ($11) dollars, and of which I did make them a present according to promise. In fitting up the Church I paid out as I said before eighty eight ($88) dollars, but in collecting the receipts, all of which were taken in the name of the parties who did the work, and were given for work done on colored Church, and turned over to the Treasurer of said Church, there were minor articles to the amount of eight ($8) dollars of which I made no account, and turned over Receipts to the amount of about eighty ($80) dollars, which they promised to pay. In about two months time they paid me fifteen ($15) dollars. The balance remained unpaid for a long time. When I sent word to them to one of their official meetings if they would pay me twenty five ($25) dollars, I would make them a present of the other forty, which they did. in proof of this your attention is