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Governor Patton for assistance from the state.

This county now being so much in debt, that we cannot get credit for provisions clothing &c for such a number of paupers. The Court of County Commissioners of this County desire to discharge their duty and to provide and extend as much charity as they have authority under the law to do, we do not wish to obviate any duty incumbent upon us.

We respectfully ask that as a portion of those paupers are from other Counties, that we may be only required to provide for those which are proper charges on this County; and that those which are subjects from other Counties, may be sent to the Counties where they respectively belong. 

We also respectfully ask to be allowed to use the houses at &c at Garland which have been used by the US as a hospital for those subjects, inasmuch as those houses are more comfortable than those at the poor house of this County, besides the buildings at the poor house can not furnish room for more than about 8 or 10 persons and those houses are in bad repair,- Should you allow each subject to retain the feed rations &c furnished which they have