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inequitable and unjust, so much so that I appealed to Capt. Robinson then Prov. Mar. at Bainbridge, and by whom the contract was approved to modify that clause in it - which request was refused upon the ground that it would be in violation of one of the published orders of the Freedmans Bureau -  The head of every family is its natural protector and where there are of its members those who by age disease or exceeding youth unable to labor, their support should be devolved upon him, her, or such of them as are not incapacitated from any cause and not become a tax upon the industry of others who have no interest in them.  The sixth clause will be taken in connection with the ninth, and is a protection to the laborer against the marauding of others who might lurk about the place against the propagation of infectious disease - and to the employer is the only protection he has against the inevitable consequences of a collection of vagrants; idle, worthless, and dishonest - whose presence