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Recd back 15" Sept and filed

Sept 11th

Lieut A Coats
A A A G, Bureau R F and A.L

Lieutenant

I have the honor to report that the County Court of this County took a child from a colored man named George Berdaux to whom it had been duly apprenticed by me and who had executed the proper papers required by me; and apprenticed the child to a white man named E.D. Walker, its former owner. The Indentures of Apprenticeship made by me were presented to this Court, who refused to acknowledge my authority to make the same. 

I respectfully request authority to take this child from the person to whom has been bound by the County & return it to Mr. Berdaux to had been bound by me the Indentures 

The child's