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intention of the Bureau in such cases - whether it will take cases of the kind under its special care placing them in asylums - or adopt an apprenticeship such as Virginia had for the poor whites & free blacks - and secondly if the apprenticeship is adopted whether the Courts of Virginia will be allowed to bind them as she does her whites or an agent of the Bureau You can see the Virginia law by reference to her Revised Code of laws - The orphans have cost me much trouble and many of them will still cost me a great deal - other than it coming large enough to be of some side. I have thought a great deal upon