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Galveston Texas Feby. 1867
Major Genl. Griffin
Comdg Dept. of Texas

In obedience to your desire I hereby submit to your consideration an opinion in answer to the interrogatones propounded to you by J.W. Brooks, in reference to the action of the County Court of Cherokee County, in this state - in the apprenticeship of Joshua Robertson's boy Jeff, to one Geo. W. Taylor and taking him (Jeff) by force from where his father hand contracted for him to work the present year.

By reference to the authorities upon the subject in point - We find a contract to be this -

"A contract in legal contemplation is an agreement between two or more parties (compitant to contract) for the doing, or not doing some particular thing,"

Next as to who are compitant &c, we see by the law upon that point that

"That all persons of discrete minds and twenty one years of age (and not tainted &c) are compitant persons to contract."

We see further that minors, married women, [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] lunatics &c are disabled by law to contract for themselves".

Hence it remains to