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Special Relief Fund.

WAR DEPARTMENT,
BUREAU OF REFUGEES, FREEDMEN, AND ABANDONED LANDS,
Washington, April 3, 1867.[[stamp]]

Circular}
No. 11. }

[[indent]]The Joint Resolution recently passed by congress for the relief of the destitute in Southern and South-western States is published for the benefit of all concerned:
[[indent]]Resolved, &c.,That the Secretary of War be, and hereby is, empowered and directed to issue supplies of food sufficient to prevent starvation and extreme want to any and all classes of destitute or helpless persons in those Southern and Southwestern States where failure of the crops and other causes have occasioned wide-spread destitution. That the issue be made through the Freedmen's Bureau, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe. And to that end the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed, through the Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau, to apply so much as he may deem necessary for the purposes aforesaid of the unexpended moneys heretofore appropriated to supply freedmen and refugees with provisions or nations: Provided, That the expenditure shall not extend beyond the present appropriations already made for the Freedmen's Bureau. 

[[indent]]1. Five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) of the unexpended moneys appropriated to supply freedmen and refugees with provisions or rations are hereby set apart, in accordance with the above Joint Resolution, approved March 30, 1867, as a special fund for the relief of the destitute in the Southern and South-western States. 
[[indent]]2. This special fund is designed to meet the immediate necessities of those who are in extreme want of food, and are not now supplied by the Freedmen's Bureau, nor by county or parish authorities.
[[indent]]3. The relief given by this fund will consist of one(1) bushel of corn and eight (8) pounds of meat per month for each adult person, and one-half the above amount of corn and meat for each child between on (1) and fourteen (14) years of age: and this