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NARA 788 Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Ab'd Lands Office Asst Supt Sub District of Goldsboro Goldsboro NC May 1st 1867 Council Best Esq Goldsboro N.C. Sir, Hanna Hay makes complaint at this office, that you have her two children Martha & Julia & refuse to give them up. She says that they are bound to you without her consent. Please send a statement of the facts to this Office to enable me to decide the case. Very Respectfully Your obdt servant H.D. Norton Capt. V.R.C. & Bvt. Maj. US vols Asst Supt B. of R.F. & Lds L.B. page 34.