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La Fayette, Alabama
April 11th, 1867

Mayor Genl. Swayne
Montgomery
Alabama 

Dear Sir

Yours of the 8th inst. came to hand, late on yesterday evening and I hasten to reply. You seem to suppose that I am still the acting Judge of Probate of Chambers County, whilst I have been out of office for nearly, a year. In regard to the complaint of Adaline Price a freedwoman I can only say that I find upon the records of the court an order made on the 20th day of December 1865, binding some children viz Balis 5 yrs old, Matilda 10, Emily 8, and Dora 2 to J B Price upon the grounds of the inability of the parents to provide for their support. By some measure the papers containing the testimony upon which they were bound and the indentures of apprenticeship has been lost or mislaid and I have carefully searched for them and I am therefore unprepared to make any definite statement of the facts and circumstances of the case as I have no recollection whatever on the subject. It is probably that she might not have been notified as the apprenticeship business was then new to me, then having been very little of this thing

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