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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
Head-Quarters Assistant Commissioner, District of Virginia, Richmond, Va., May 31st 1868.

Estimate of rations required for issue to "sick in Hospitals" and to destitute "Refugees and Freedmen" in the District of Va., for the month of June 1868.

Number of rations required "Seventy one thousand three hundred and forty" (71.340) and "Forty thousand" (40.000) Soup rations.
O Brown Bvt. Brig. Genl Vols. Asst. Comr

Number of rations required in:
I. S.D. 6.930
III. S.D. 55.000 & 40.000 Soup rations
V. S.D. 4.350
X S.D. 60
for deficiency 5.000
Total 71.340 & 40.000 Soup rations

Bvt. Maj. W. A. Elderkin, Capt. & C.S. U.S.Army, will issue the rations included in the above estimate.
JM Schofield Bvt. Maj. Genl. U.S. Army Comd'g

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