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So. ampton Co. Va. July 16, 1866.

At a meeting of the Overseers of the Poor of Southampton County held at the Court house thereof on Monday the 19th of June 1866 the following proceedings were had:—
"The motion was made and carried to take charge of the indigent and needy coloured population in consideration of their liability to taxation"

The clerk begs leave to remark that the board has no means at present of ascertaining the number of indigent or insane freedmen in their county, as their mode of providing for indigent persons of every description in their county is upon application of themselves or their friends hence it is impossible as yet to give any thing near a correct report of those mentioned above.

E. L. Story Clerk
O. of Poor.

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