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After a full consultation by Governor Patton and your commissioner with General Swayne, it was decided to make another appeal to the Federal Government for relief.  General Swayne at once opened a correspondence with General O.O. Howard, Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, and through him, with the Secretary of War which resulted in such a modification of the General Order as to authorize the purchase and issue of forty thousand dollars worth of corn and bacon per month for the three months.  Thus securing further relief and a very desirable change in the character of food to be issued.
The necessary measures were at once adopted to secure the supply of food provided for by the new arrangement.  Owing to unavoidable delays, incident to the change in manner of purchase and supply, no portion of it reached the state for distribution during the month of October.
This lapse in the issue, though occasioning much suffering, could not have occurred at a time when it would have been less keenly felt.  Coming, as it did, just as the small quantity of corn raised was being gathered. The first shipments under the new purchase now arriving will soon be ready for distribution, and furnish relief to many. Beging a scanty subsistance from others, who are sharing their short supply of grain only to become dependent themselves before an other crop can be matured. Appeals so urgent as not to be resisted, are daily made at

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