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properly cared for, and willing to remain an apprentice. There are applications on file now in this Court for the apprenticing of minors, and I have deferred acting upon them until I can hear from you. I desire to do justice to all parties, and especially to minors.
There is also an application on file in this Court for the revocation of an order apprenticing a minor (a girl over fourteen years of age) which application is set for a hearing on the first Monday of September next, and I am informed that the apprentice does not wish the order revoked, and that the application was made in consequence of unfriendly feelings toward the master, on the pact of the applicant (a white man) I have issued citations for the apprentice and the master, requiring them to appear before me on the day set for hearing the application. Now, if on the hearing of said application, the apprentice appears in open Court and voluntarily declares that she does not wish the indenture revoked, but desires to remain apprenticed to her present master,