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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.