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I have posted, and sent to different parts of my Sub District, Notices requiring all persons, whether White or Colored, having Orphan Colored Children living with them or under their care, unless they are legally bound to them, to report the same without delay to this Office. The result of which is that within ten days I have on my list the names and residences of about forty Children, which list, when completed, I have proposed to the Court to turn over to them that they may be legally bound out or provided with good homes as they (the members of the Court) have expressed a willingness and a desire to do the best and all they can, in connection withh the Bureau to secure for these Children good homes where they can be properly clothed, fed, educated and raised up to men and women, and have a little something of their own when they become of age.

Very Respty
Your obt. Servt.
J.B. Clinton
Lieut. & Asst Supt.
Amelia & Powhatan Cos. Va

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