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has been in his care and keeping and has been clothed and supported by him for eighteen months; that the said Jane Albright has for the last year or two been living in idleness and [[?]] a lewd and dissolute life; that she is a common street strumpet and [[?]] profane; unfit wholly to raise said child, if she had the means; that until lately she has worked more scarcely and has no property; seeing her condition, knowing her unsteady habits and her [[?]] character, and learning she talked of going to Raleigh or  [[?]] and spoke of taking the said Fannie with her, your petitioner, through his [[?]], obtained an order from his court of [[?]] of said County and in conformity with the instructions, as he was advised, of the Freedmen's Bureau, an order for the said Jane Albright to appear before the said Court and show cause, if any she had, why she said Fannie should not be [[?]] to your petitioner; that said order was issued and a notice served upon her by Sheriff Stafford; that after said notice was returned into court and at the time sdesignated, he made a motion, through his counsel, to have her apprenticed to him; introduced evidence showing his own suitable qualifications for being appointed its master and her lewd character and unfintness  [[?]] in character and properly to keep it; that upon [[?]] evidence