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Berryville, Clarke Co Va
April 7th 1866

Major W. Stum, Am
Superintendent &c

Major
Yours of March 26th to Mr P. D. Shepherd, President of the Board of Overseers of the poor of this county, was received, and submitted by him to the Board today.

I am directed to make the following reply.  You are respectfully referred to Chapter 51 of the code of Va for 1860, as the authority under which our Board was created, and which will show also the extent of the powers conferred on us.  You will perceive from the 5th section of the ch: referred to, that the law makes no discrimination against person of color, nor have we sought to make any.

We have refused no application for admission, except where the applicant had no "legal settlement" in our county and I believe there were but two cases of that kind.  Very few have asked to be supported, and fortunately so, as the means 

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