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Department of Agriculture
Washington, D.C., June 5, 1867.

Sir:

I have the honor to inform you that I have this day sent to your address One Mail Bag containing vegetable seed with the request that you will make a judicious distribution of the same among the people of your County, as contemplated by Resolution of Congress, appropriating $50,000 for the purchase of seeds for the South, and trust the same will reach you in good order. When received please acknowledge.

Respectfully, yours, &c.,
J. W. Stokes
Acting Commissioner.

Lt. Allan Rutherford
Wilmington, N.C.

PS The mailbag you will return to your Post office in order [[?]] that it may be returned to the Post office Dept.