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came with three coloured men to take her. She refused to go saing positively, she would not, I then took her before Dr [[Mutten? Multen?]] a justice of the peace she told him that she did not want to go and if her mother forst or compelled her she would run away the first opertunity. I got a voucher or certificate to that afect. I took it to Capt. Doherety he said for us to keep the girl and see what would bee the next move the mother would make, he thought she would write to General Howard, the woman has no home herself and no viseable means of surport which I can prove, I think. She wants the child to hire to support her in idleness. Major Kanp pleas write General H. and have the matter settled