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If there are such persons in Va. you can proceed to supply them under this circular with a limited ration which will keep them from starving.

The circular was drawn up for all the states, not for Va. alone. In Ga. & Ala, a large number of people white & black are suffering by reason of the failure of the crops last year. This new legislation enables Gen. Howard to furnish them food, which he could not do under previous orders. And to make the sum set apart go as far as possible, he has chosen to order a separate account kept, and an issue of corn and meat alone.

If none of it is needed in Va.