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War Department,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
Washington, July 17th 1866.

Bvt. Maj. Genl. Wager Swayne
Asst. Comr. Alabama

General: 
Reports have just reached the Commissioner of great destitution in the counties of Morgan, Blunt, Winston, St. Clair, and DeKalb Alabama, which he desires you to take immediate steps to relieve.
The Bureau Appropriation Bill has become a law, and in case you should be unable to obtain the rations you may require from the Commissary Department, the Commissioner thinks a bonded Commissary may purchase the corn and charge it to the Bureau, if it can be obtained, in such amount as may be necessary to prevent actual suffering.
You will not of course issue full rations, as

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