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Thirty ninth Congress
First Session.

Congress of the United States, 
In the House of Representations.

May 1st 1866,
Mr. Kelley submitted the following, which was adapted. 
Whereas it is reported by citizens of Alabama in formal memorial, to the two Houses of Congress, that many of the people of the mountain districts of said State are suffering from want adequate supplies of food, and that considerable numbers of them have actually died of starvation. 
Therefore,
Be it resolved, That the President be requested to instruct the proper offices of the Bureau of Refugees and Freedmen to inquire into the condition of said districts, and any other districts of the late insurgent States in which such suffering may be said to exist and to relieve the people thereof and provide them with corn and other seed for planting a crop sufficient for an annual supply of each family requiring such relief.
Attest.
(signed) Edw'd McPherson          
Clerk    

Official. A.P. Ketchum
A.A.A. Genl.

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