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Notasulga Ala. Feb. 9th 1866

Gov Patton, I would respectfully call the attention of your excellency, to the condition of the indigent families in Macon County, a number of whom, are to day without one bushel of corn, and without one dollar in money to buy it with. For the last two years, I have been acting (under authority of the Commissioner's Court) as General Commissioner for the indigent families of Macon County, consequently I am well acquainted with the conditions and necessities of this unfortunate class of our citizens, and I write knowingly on this subject when I saw to your excellency that without some relief they will certainly suffer. There is one potion of Macon County, where this destitution does no exist, but it is remote from where the corn is needed, and were it otherwise, these poor families are destitute of means, either to purchase or to haul the corn if they were able to buy it.
The greatest necessity is near the line of the M. & W.P. Railroad. begining at Franklin and extending to Opelika, excepting Leachapoka Beat, and including Texas Beat and a portion of Luskega Beat. By refering to my Books, I find that it required (and was distributed) in that portion of county which I have mentioned, as now destitute an aggregate of Ten Thousand (10,000) bushels of corn yearly for the last two years. A much less amount would suffice for this year, as many of the soldiers whose families were formerly beneficiaries returned from the war in this last year to make a crop. The most needy class