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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.