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The County has made no provision for very poor, & this boy will starve if he waits to be supported from that source. And I really think the Freedmen's friends ought to take care of him, especially when the government has appropriated so many millions of dolls, for such purpose. If this object of charity & pity does not come under their care & protection - who is a cripple & almost an idiot - in the name of God who does? Please let me hear from you at your earliest convenience & oblige a Yr Obt St Jos. H. Etheridge