Your letter in regard to the Clark Boys and Mr. Mull received and contents noted. The matter has been thoroughly threshed out with the Executive Committee and they passed a resolution stating that they did not have the moral nor legal right to put these boys out just for a living with no assurance that they would be taken care of in old age.

One of the boys is afflicted with acute articular rheumatism and is not able to work a great part of the time. They are perfectly happy and satisfied here.

We do not doubt Mr. Mull's goodness of heart and intentions, and his ability to carry out the same, but we feel that we must have some assurance that these boys will be taken care of after his death, or that he should make some provision for them, which he refuses to do. He wrote me that at his death or when they were unable to work, he would turn them over to the authorities of Wake County, as he had the promise that they would be admitted. We have no assurance that any of these things would be carried out.

Thanking you for the interest and with the kindest regards to yourself and Mrs. Bickett, and further assuring you that we appreciate Mr. Mull's position and friendship as well as his interest in these boys, I beg to remain