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but one or two cases in which either by word or action the employers were not disposed to recognize the freedom of their servants and these were not agravated cases. I have bound out orphan children whenever I have had application for them. I have made it a condition in all indentures that the apprentice should be learned reading writing and common arithmetic. and that boys on arriving at the age of 21 should have $100 and girls at the age of eighteen $50. I have thought it better to adhear to this if I did not get so many bound out than to place them where they could not have an opportunity of learning to read and write. I think the business of this office is decreasing very rapidly except in the matter of issuing rations to the destitute freedmen  I have a good many of them on my hands and the number is increasing. I think you will not find a more quiet County in the District

I am very Respectfully
Your obt Servt
Frank A. Page
Lieut 2' VRC
Asst Supt

[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]

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