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nine years, an orphan.

I Am Lieutenant
Very Respectfully
Your Obedt. Servant
Allan Rutherford
Lt. Col. V.R.C. Supt So. Dist NC

P.S.
I understand that the Court proposed to repudiate any authority in this Bureau to apprentice colored children and to Annul all Indentures made by its officers and bind the children to such persons as they see fit.

Allan Rutherford
Sup't &c.