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to secure all the cooperation so much needed. The Commission therefore desire to receive from you the most reliable estimate you can make of the amount of corn needed in Georgia, over and above what the people can purchase for themselves, and receive from the Freedman's Bureau, to supply the destitution which must exist in the State between this time and the gathering of another harvest.

We wish if possible to obtain such estimate of what is needed in the State, respectively, as will enable us to act intelligently in adopting measures of relief, and so, at the same time, as to secure the widest and heartiest cooperation on the part of those from