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Pittsboro N'o. C'a. April 30th 1868.

H. C. Vogell, Agt Bu R.F. & A.L.

Sir:
Your letter of the 25th to Mr. N W. Hill has been duly rec'd, and he being in a very delicate state of health, not able to give his attention to business, has requested one to make the following statements, which he hopes may prove a satisfactory answer, and meet your favorable consideration. Inclosed you will find a verbatim copy of an Indenture, in which the girl is regularly bound to him by one of the Officers of your Bureau, so this alone should settle the matter, as I suppose the Officers of the Bureau respect and regard, as binding the official acts of each other, just as our Court's do. While Mr. Hill has most faithfully kept and performed his covenants in the Indenture, which if required he can readily prove, it would certainly be unjust for the Bureau wilfully break the contract of one of its duly commissioned Agents. But disregarding the Indenture, and receiving the matter in another light, I am sure you will decide that the interest and happiness of the girl will be promoted by remaining with Mr. Hill. She is most kindly provided for, in fact treated almost as one of the family, waits about that house, never exposed to the weather, sleeps in the bedroom of Mrs. Hill, eats that same as the family, is most comfortably and neatly clad, and in everything indulged as much as could be; so that she would be taken from a most comfortable home and kind friends, where she enjoyed all the necassaries [[necessaries]] and many of the luxuries of life, is happy and contented, and would be carried to share the poverty of her mother, who has eight children and no husband, and where of course her wants would not be so well provided for, nor she so happy and contented.

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