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REPORT OF NUMBER OF RATIONS ISSUED AND PERSONS RELIEVED IN THE STATE OF ALABAMA DURING ELEVEN MONTHS ENDING SEPTMEBER 30, 1866.
| --- | White. | Colored. |
| MONTHS | Men. | Women. | Male. (Children) | Female. (Children) | Total. | Men. | Women. | Male. (Children) | Female. (Children) | Total. | Total number of Men. | Total number of women. Total number of children. | Aggregate. | Total number of Rations issued. | Total value of Rations issued.
| November, 1865 |    72 |   473 |   821 |   875 |  2,251 | 327 | 656 | 346 | 615 | 1,944 | 399 | 1,139 | 2,657 | 4,195 | 70,781 | $9,865 69 |
| December, 1856 |   271 |   909 | 1,059 | 1,090 |  3,329 | 464 | 860 | 345 | 574 | 2,243 | 735 | 1,769 | 3,068 | 5,572 | 77,017 | 10,412 09 |
| January, 1866. |   349 | 2,377 | 1,735 | 2,764 |  7,225 | 538 | 1,053 | 742 | 1,002 | 3,335 | 887 | 3,430 | 6,243 | 10,560 | 111,516 | 19.185 34 |
| February, 1866 | 1,285 | 3,641 | 3,806 | 5,039 | 13,771 | 894 | 1,455 | 880 | 1,095 | 4,324 | 2,179 | 5,096 | 10,820 | 18,095 | 304,191 | 53.484 55 |
| March, 1866... | 1,181 | 4,971 | 5,706 | 6,758 | 18,616 | 995 | 2,007 | 1,389 | 1,662 | 6,053 | 2,176 | 6,978 | 15,515 | 24,669 | 352,652 | 58,550 08 | 
| April, 1866... | 1,038 | 4,340 | 4,844 | 6,642 | 16,864 | 1,176 | 2,331 | 1,904 | 2,771 | 8,182 | 2,214 | 6,671 | 16,161 | 25,046 | 416,266 | 69,420 19 |
| May, 1866..... | 1,743 | 5,821 | 6,939 | 9,064 | 23,567 | 1,479 | 3,433 | 2,898 | 3,516 | 11,326 | 3,222 | 9,254 | 22,417 | 34,893 | 613,567 | 106,637 00 |
| June, 1866.... | 1,912 | 5,641 | 6,932 | 8,092 | 22,577 | 1,654 | 3,170 | 2,846 | 3,151 | 10,821 | 3,566 | 8,811 | 21,021 | 33,398 | 792,349 | 131,955 97 |
| July, 1866.... | 1,585 | 5,036 | 7,108 | 8,076 | 21,805 | 1,294 | 2,472 | 2,379 | 2,648 | 8,793 | 2,879 | 7,508 | 20,211 | 30,598 | 476,82 | 81,919 10 |
| August, 1866.. | 1,376 | 4,528 | 5,932 | 6,836 | 18,672 | 1,178 | 2,025 | 2,112 | 2,247 | 7,562 | 2,554 | 6,553 | 17,127 | 26,234 | 282,617 | 50,360 39 |
| September 1866 | 1,368 | 4,454 | 5,547 | 6,543 | 17,912 | 1,242 | 2,225 | 1,939 | 2,126 | 7,532 | 2,610 | 6,679 | 16,155 | 25,444 | 291,960 | 51,799 76 |
| Total......... | 12,180 | 42,201 | 50,429 | 61,779 | 166,589 | 11,241 | 21,687 | 17,780 | 21,407 | 72,115 | 23,421 | 63,888 | 51,295 | 238,704 | 3,789,788 | 643,590 16


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The issue, it will be observed, increased greatly during the first months of this year, as operations were extended over the area of distress, and as numbers were added from those who had lived until that time on a little corn, or a bale or two of cotton, that had survived the war.

A statement had been sent forward in December as to the extent of suffering to be apprehended, but the hope had been expressed that the daily issue need not at any time be more than fifteen thousand rations. Large as these figures were, they did not keep pace with the evidence of suffering. At all considerable towns were seen emaciated persons, who had come a long way in quest of food. Letters, newspaper statements, and personal appeals came in from every quarter, while men of prominence and known integrity went to solicit contributions in the North, with which to supplement the relief afforded by the Government.

Finally, the following resolution of the U. S. House of Representatives was transmitted to this office:

"Whereas, it is reported by citizens of Alabama, in formal memorial to the two Houses of Congress, that many of the people of the mountain districts of said State are suffering from want to adequate supplies of food, and that considerable numbers of them have actually died of starvation: Therefore,

be it resolved, That the President be requested to instruct the proper officers of the Bureau of Refugees and Freedmen to inquire into the condition of said districts, and any other districts in the late insurgent States in which said suffering may be said to exist, and to relieve the people thereof, and provide them with corn and other seed for planting a crop of sufficient for an annual supply of each family requiring such relief."

With this, were instructions to carry it into effect.

It was considered too late to supply seed corn for the current year, unnecessary to provide it for the year to come. As to the indicated measures of relief, the resolution did not lessen the anxiety which was already felt in this connection. Too much was an evil only not worse than the disease; too little, while there were stories of starvation in the air, wat to become responsible for loss of life.

The solution seemed to be that the Governor and the