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ARCHIBALD RUSSELL, President, Address, No. 61. Broadway,
EDWARD BRIGHT, Cor. Sec., Address, No. 39 Park Row,
FORD LAW OLMSTED, Rec. Sec., Address, No. 110 Broadway,
Jas. M. BROWN, Treas., Mess. Brown Bros. & Co., 59 Wall St.
JOHN BOWNE, Gen. Agent, Address No. 61 Broadway.

Southern Famine Relief Commission
[[strikethrough]] 61 BROADWAY. [[/strikethrough]] 39 Park Row.
New York, April 24th 1867. 

Col C. C. Sibley
Savannah, Ga.

Dear Sir,
We have complaints from the starving people of Georgia, that there are so many "red tape" regulations to be observed by the judges of the Inferior Courts, that the corn sent by the Southern Famine Relief Commission, lies for many days at the depots, while the people are almost dying from the want of bread; and we are told that me of the judges of Jefferson County said that "nobody but the widows and children of confederate soldiers" would get any of the corn sent from New York.

Our Commission have no wish to have the families of confederate soldiers excluded from the distribution. But it must be distinctly under

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