Freedmen's Bureau Records: A. F. Terry to Thomas P.
Jackson, October 26, 1867
Summary:
Terry, the clerk in Winchester, returns an expense to Jackson for correction.
Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned
Lands
Head Quarters 9t Sub
District
Virginia
Mr. Thomas P.
Jackson
Agent
Staunton, Virginia
October 26th 1867
Winchester, Virginia
Sir
I return herewith for correction your accounts for expenses incurred in manufacture of Furniture for Schoolhouse at Staunton. The letter from this office authorizing the expenditure, expressly stated it was to be for "Desks."
I again request that when blanks are sent you for extraordinary expenditures, of this kind, you will return them receipted in blank and the memorandum of articles purchased or services rendered, sent on a separate sheet of paper, to avoid the trouble, delay & expense of their return for correction.
Please return the new set of forms which are inclosed, without delay.
Very Respectfully
Your Obedient
Servant
In the absence of Captain John A.
McDonnell, Sub Assistant Commissioner
A. F. Terry
Clerk
