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L99 HEADQUARTERS, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, STATE OF LOUISIANA. New Orleans, May 15th 1866 Colonel Max Woodhull, Assistant Adjutant General Headquarters, Bureau Freedmen &c Washington, D.C. Colonel; - In reply to a communication just received from your Office the purport of which, as I understand it, is to require me to report the number of people in this State who are in a condition of destitution, the degree of which is such as to make their starvation, or very great suffering from the want of food probable, - and also to report the number of persons to whom corn and other seeds could properly be issue by the Government so as to make sure of a crop for their future maintenance - They being unable to provide such seeds for themselves. I have to state, that no cases answering the above discription [[description]] have come to my knowledge either officially or in my casual intercourse with the people - my Inspector General receives monthly reports from our Parish Agents in which