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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen & Abandoned Lands,
Headquarters Assistant Commissioner State of North Carolina,
Raleigh, N.C. 31st March 1868.
L665

Major Gen'l. O.O. Howard,,
Commissioner,
Washington, D.C.

General:
I have the honor to transmit herewith Copy of General Orders from Hd. Qrs. 2nd Military Dist. in which it appears that authority has been given to the Asst. Commissioner of South Carolina to make advances to aid the agricultural interests of that State.

No such authority has been given for a similar procedure in this State, although I consider that the calls for help in it are as numerous as in South Carolina.

The failure of crops during the last year was general;- the inhabitants are as poor and perhaps worse off than their neighbors and there is