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Williamson A. Glover, and a freedman, a minor boy named Reuben that he approved of the application & Bound him out, believing that it was for the best interest of the minor that the said Glover should be appointed but that no bond has yet been given but in good faith will be done & with whom said minor now resides & is now well provided for as I am advised and believe.
3rd There have been [[?]] other applications to have Freed negroes who are minors bound under the act of the Legislature above alluded to, principally however from that portion of Greene County which lay East of the Warrior River and now known as Hale County and separated from Greene by act of our Legislature & over which Territory L now have no jurisdiction, but in no instance were the minors brought before me for examination privately & apart from applicants & being satisfied that said minors were not likely for support & [[?]] to become a public charge and no evidence being offered or advanced to my satisfaction that the best interest of the minors required that they should by me be bound out consequently none in this 3rd Clause spoken of in this Report have been bound.