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gentlemen from Shelby and Blunt and Bibb to write their opinions on the question.  This is the beginning of our hearing from those counties, of which we were speaking in your office, I felt certain that the cry would come in time.

Calculating the cost, in a hundred rations, of the meat, sugar, candles, &c, and it will be readily seen how much the effectiveness of the Government bounty will be augmented by the change proposed. 
Very Respectfully
Your obt Servt
Sam'l S Gardner 
Superintendent

Judge Mudd suggests the representatives from the above counties as competent authority.