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entitled to due consideration, appeared so enormously large, that few were disposed to give them that full credit to which they now seem to have been entitled.

There is scarcely a county in the State, for which the estimate then sent up would now be considered too large, while in many, the calls for relief now come up from nearly double the number of persons then reported.

The supplies furnished by the Government through the agency of the Freedmens Bureau have undoubtedly done great good and relieved many who must otherwise have almost certainly perished.

The apportionment of these supplies, which you were kind enough to permit me to make, was as equitable, and adjusted as nearly in accordance with the [[strikethrough]] supposed [[/strikethrough]] reported destitution in each county as was possible under the circumstances.