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is the cause of the great difficulty he has experienced in bonding out orphan minor children of freedmen. He finds the majority of the whites object solely to that part of the statutory law of the state which makes them educate black apprentices to the same degree as white ones. This is owing to the fear that children of freedmen are not able to learn with the same facility as whites, and in the absence of schools. States that he has been wholly unable to make indentures of children because of this "unwillingness" referred to above. Many very respectable citizens are willing to keep children they now have but will not take them or have them as indentured apprentices. Submits that a "modification" of state law so far as this educational provision is concerned could in the case of children of freedmen [[?]] to their interest. Has notified the overseer of the poor that they are expected to take charge of the poor and destitute freed - people. Thinks they will do it if ordered by military authority although the will try to evade it as long as possible so that the Govt rather than the County may be charged with the support. 

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