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Town or County in the same manner as is provided for destitute white persons? 

Answer-Our laws which have long been in force make no distinction between paupers on account of their color and the Board of Overseers of this City provided for white and colored paupers indiscriminately upon application. until your Bureau undertook to provide for colored paupers-We presume they will continue to do so as provided in 51st Chapter of the Code of Va. should the case of your Bureau be withdrawn and the subject turned over wholly to the civil authorities. 

II. What will be the extent and character of such maintenance as assistance? And if

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---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-02-23 11:07:35 -corrected typos. -Please transcribe the abbreviation for Virginia as shown: "Va" not "VA"