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327, Page, LB.

Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
Office Asst. Sub-Asst. Commissioner, First Division Third Sub-District of Virginia,
Richmond, Va., July 24th 1868.

Lieut. Paul R. Hambrick 
Sub Asst. Com'r. 3d Sub. Dist, Va.

Lieut:-
In compliance with "Circular Letter dated November 22d 1866," I have the honor to state that forty (40) thousand dry and fifty (50) thousand Soup rations will be required for issue gratuitously to indigent Refugees and Freedpeople in this Division for the month of August. 

The above number of rations are actually required. It must be borne in mind that the destitution among the poor in this City is more general than last summer. At this time there is a great deal of sickness among the indigent colored people. The certificates of our Bureau Surgeons recommending sick rations to indigent white and colored persons are increasing. It would be gratifying to me could I safely recommend a diminution of Government Charity to these people but this cannot be done in view of the above facts if we would wish to prevent extreme 

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