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dividing, according to the best information we could get, such an aggregate daily issue as was the least we could possibly get along with. Six depots were established, where county agents could get their supplies, and the Legislature authorized the Counties to meet the necessary expense. Complete power of revision & removal was reserved to the Commissioners both of the Bureau and the State, and changes have from time to time been made.

Under this system, an estimate was forwarded of supplies to be delivered during the month of May, amounting to twenty thousand three hundred rations daily. You have been advised of the circumstances which led to this limit being fixed.

During the past month there has been abundant evidence that, great as it is, it is yet insufficient.  Men are starting every where to get help.

The Governor has not been insensible to the