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The court set the 18th day of August 1866 to hear and determine said application and report. And orders that Betty a freedwoman the mother of the said minors be notified of the filing of said application & report, and of the day set for hearing the same. Which notice was executed bu serving copy, signed by the Staff August 10th 1866 (Sec acts 1865 & 6 page 131 Sec 11) 
On the day set for the hearing and full investigation had and no contest being made the court held that the said minors were fit subjects to be apprenticed, and the said minors were apprenticed to the said Simon D. Culver in Conformity to section 1 page 128 Acts 65 & 6 the said Culver complying with Section 2 [[id?]]. Since Simon has returned from the penitentiary he has hired his wife Betty out to J.F. Culver she was not live with her former owner Simon D Culver, Simon lives about two miles away with B.J. Hudsforth which is about two miles form Louisville. I know of no freedman nor say of their children in this county that are illegally contained. The citizens of Henry County have as much sympathy for this unfortunate [?]  as any people Simon [[strikethrough]] could now have been in the penitentiary [[/strikethrough]] had it not been for the citizens of this county. You will please forward a copy of this letter to Genl Swayne 

Respectfully M.B. Green
Judge of Probate &
Ex. officio County Judge