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0147 under This State of things as soon as the civil authority can bind and can inforce the provision of the Vagrant law againts the colored persons who violate it. more definitely, than by saying, that it is enacted for our guidance & government [[illegible]] laws intended in all such cases to dispose the burdens & the [[illegible]] of color, - and our action will accordingly be controlled by Overseers of the Poor of Brunswick County Virginia April 23rd 1866 Jno. T. Griffin Benj. H. Rogers Geo Short R A. Kidd
Transcription Notes:
At the end, to facilitate reading, I put the Overseers &c first and listed the names under it.