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And how is it to be appropriated. The plan of distribution which has been and is still being adopted here is a curs to the people who get it instead of a blessing. The head of a family will walk 18 or 20 miles and spend two days to get a peck or half of a bushel of corn - this time taken and of their regular time for labor every week - Will cause them this year as it did last to loose a crop - And thus a demand next year for another appropriation will be as urgent as this - What the people here need is corn - We have the mills to grind it and the women to bake the bread - And the supply should come in sufficient quantity so that each person competent to draw could get according to the size of his family as much as from 2 to 10 bushels at a time - 

This should save time and give an opportunity to make a crop - If any method could be adopted through you or your recommendation by which any person could draw the means from the appropriation to purchase in the West 3 or 4 thousand bushels of corn and have it shipped to this Section of destitute country I have not doubt but that it would enable the destitute in all this Section to make plenty to do them for another year - And thus the government would be relieved from further