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both will necessarily be abandoned unless they procure means of subsistence. In this emergency I would respectfully urge, if possible, that authority be given similar to that issued under the orders governing the disbursement of the Special Relief Fund during the early part of last year, and that any unexpended portion of that fund now on hand, be appropriated to meet cases as above cited-either by gratuitous issues or loans.

But a portion of the fund, supplied this State, was used, and the balance would supply much of the want now felt.
I am General,
Very Respectfully
Your obdt. svt.
Nelson A Miles
Col. & Bvt. Maj. Gen.
Asst. Commissioner.