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depots. There will be in every county a much larger number of applicants than can possibly be supplied from the number of rations estimated for. Many of these ought not to be supplied and the given quantity of rations being furnished to the agents for each county will compel them to provide first for those who are absolutely dependent and thus cut off the great swarm of applicants who ought to be at work. To issue rations to all who apply with affidavits and certificates as to their destitution - sixty thousand rations daily would not supply them. To issue in that manner from the different depots would soon exhaust your estimate of fifteen thousand rations daily and leave whole districts of country where the greatest actual destitution prevail entirely unprovided for. The only fair or safe plan in my opinion is to place in the hands of the county agent (who will be overlooked by the probate judge and commissioner  court) the limited supply apportioned  to each county and devolve upon them the duty of searching out the most needy and distributing  to them. That there is great destitution and much actual suffering

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