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39 Park Row,
New York, March 27th 1867.

Maj. Genl. Swayne,
Montgomery, Ala.

Dear Sir:
I am glad to inform you that the U.S. Bark Purveyor, which left this port on Saturday last, took eighteen thousand bushels of mixed corn to be delivered to you, or such person as you may appoint to receive it, for distribution among the destitute people of Alabama. As the Purveyor is a sailing ship, we can only hope that she will have a speedy passage to Mobile, where she is to unload her cargo. But, as she is a government ship there will be no charge for transportation. She caries 12,000 bushels of corn to Savannah, where she will first stop, and then  proceed directly to Mobile. [[strikethrough]] The [[/strikethrough]]

The Commission has no formal instructions to make in addition to those previous-