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3d   The extent of their destitution?
4th  The estimated amount required for their support per month?
5th  The number of males and females in each family and their ages?
6th  The character of the infirmities, and the cause of their not being able to earn their own livelyhood?

In response to this letter, reports more or less complete were sent up from Forty three of the fifty two counties in the State, showing an aggregate of Fifty two thousand nine hundred and twenty one (52,921) destitute persons in the State.

Add to this a proportionate estimate, for the counties not reported, and it gives as a total the large estimate of sixty four thousand indigent persons in the State as early as November last.

These startling figures although obtained from sources