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The Ration allowed to Refugees and Freedmen.

[[stamp]] The National Archives of the United States

WAR DEPARTMENT,
BUREAU REFUGEES, FREEDMEN, AND ABANDONED LANDS,
Washington, August 9, 1867.

CIRCULAR}
No. 27

  To correct errors in issuing rations to destitute Refugees and Freedmen, the following extracts from the Bureau Officers' Manual (Pars. 1, 2, 3, and 9, Article 5) relative to the issue of rations, is published for the information of officers charged with that duty:
  I. The following is the ration established for issue by the Subsistence Department to destitute adult Refugees and Freedmen. Persons over fourteen years of age are considered adults; persons under fourteen will receive one-half of the ration:
  II. Twelve ounces of pork or bacon, or one pound and two ounces of salt or fresh beef; one pound, and two ounces of soft bread or flour, or one pound of hard bread, or one pound and four ounces of corn meal.
  III. The ration for Refugees and Freedmen sick in Bureau hospitals, will be that established by G.O. No. 226, War Department, A.G.O., July 8, 1864.
  IV. When the classes of persons above named are in part able to subsist themselves, only a portion of the ration will be issued.

O.O. HOWARD, 
Major-General, Commissioner.

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