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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