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Office of Asst Supt Bureau of R F and A L
Tuskegee Ala Jan 1st 1866

Col C Cadle Jr
AAG  B of R F and A L

Col
Complaints are Continually being made at this Office of Colored Children being apprenticed who have Both Parrents living and without consent of the parrents
I consider Such a Course entirely illegal and have Sent Some of the minors So apprenticed to their Parrents
these Complaints principally come from Chambers and Russell Counties of this dist. please inform me whither I am correct in the Course I am persuing or not. it is Causing an immense amount of trouble to the Freedmen give me Some instruction on this Point
Very Respectfully
Your Obt Servt
Spencer Smith
Lieut and Asst Supt