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on the 20th of Nov at which time he released the boy Lee but refused to release any of the others. He says "I hope my action in the cases decided today may meet with the approbation of your Bureau. If it should not however and you have the power and authority to reverse it or set it aside you will of course do so if you think your official duty requires it."

I consider it bad policy when a child is earning its own support or already provided with a home and support among friends for the State to interfere and bind such child out to other parties where it would be no better off changing its place of residence, paying no regard to social ties, not consulting those most interested in the welfare of the child nor even the feelings of the child himself in cases where he had already arrived at years of discretion, and I so informed Judge Wolfe. Yet he has thought proper to apprentice these children