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It is impossible to pay current expenses and repair these buildings out of the rent receipts, and repair them we must or in good conscience quit charging rent.  otherwise as a portion of the population leaves all our rentors, who are able to pay, will go where their rent money will get into other hands than ours

Capt Church paid over to Col Balloch Gen Howards Disbursing Officer Three thousand dollars.  Col Lee paid over I am informed Nine thousand and Col Ludington certainly several thousand more since the organization of the Bureau all of which accrued from the tax on Freedmens wages in and about Alexandria and in the adjoining county of Fairfax

Capt Church was in some sense the the predecessor of the Quartermaster of this (the 5th) District whoever he may be and if you could get the Three thousand dollars paid over by him appropriated to

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