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your Board cannot provide, for all destitute colored persons. what is the proportion of the same for which the Board will undertake to provide?

Answer The Board expects to provide for all paupers, both white and colored, who are by law chargeable on the City as paupers, and have a legal settlement therein, upon proper application, as provided in the Chapter of the Code above referred to.

III What rule of action does the Board propose for their own action, upon the subject of colored paupers?

Answer The Board expects to be governed by the laws of the State in relation to