erenezer foote. we read this and this wasn't very long ago. notices goes, i think 1831. i think it was sometime in the 1930's the wpa went around and they actually took oral interviews. it was a very slow manual ammunition and i think it was july, law was passed which says that anyone who has -- any woman that gives birth to a baby that's enslaved, 25 years if she's a girl, 28 years the masters, 28 years to serve if the baby is a male and the laws kept changing, but at that time if you kept that child, you were entitled to 3.50 from the state of new york for the upkeep of that child but many people what they would do is they would take the baby, you would have to register the birth of that child with the town clerk and go to the master and give up the child and then either the master would give the child right back to you or the master would find someone else to take the baby and they would be paid the 3.50. by 1802 the law had changed so it was $2 a month and then only until the child was 4 year's old and by 1804 they changed it where they eliminated because new york st