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The Subsistence Department of the Bureau have issued 521,324 pounds of corn, 5,981 pounds of bacon, from the appropriation made under Joint Resolution of Congress approval March 20th 1817 besides 6495 pounds of corn, and 1814 pounds of bacon, furnished to colored inmates of the State Insane Asylum at Tuscaloosa. A further sum of nineteen hundred dollars was expended upon the asylum for the comfort and convenience of the colored inmates.

I herewith transmit detailed statement of Stores issued under Joint Appropriation of Congress and operations of the soup kitchen in the state, from the latter it appears that 217,919 persons have been releived at an average cost