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Recd back 26" Sept and filed Sept 11th Lieut A Coates A.A.A.G Lieutenant The County Court's are now in session in several Counties in this Dist, and are taking Colored children away from their parents and binding them as apprentices to their former masters. Altho the Court has been in session in this County but one day I have already had many complaints of this kind, and it appears to me as if the object was to re-establish the institution of Slavery to all intents. I would most respectfully ask for instructions. Are colored children to be forced away from their parents and apprenticed by the Courts, especially in cases where their parents are able and willing to support them? I Am Lieutenant Very Respectfully Allan Rutherford Sup't So Dist VRC