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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
Head-Quarters Assistant Commissioner, District of Virginia,
Richmond, Va September 30th, 1868
Estimate of rations required for issue to "sick in Hospitals" and to destitute "Refugees and Freedmen" in the District of Virginia for the month of October 1868.

Number of rations required "Forty five thousand four hundred and seventy one"(45,471), and "Forty thousand"(40,000) Soup rations.

Number of rations required in 
1. Sub. Dist.: 3751.
2. Sub. Dist.: 2015
3. Sub. Dist.: 35675 & 40,000 Soup rations
5. Sub. Dist.: 3968
10. Sub. Dist.: 62
Total 45,471 & 40,000 Soup rations

Garrick Mallery 
Bvt. Col. U.S. Army
A.A.A. Genl. 
In absence of the Asst Com'r.

Bvt. Maj. W.A. Elderkin, Capt. & C.S, U.S. Army will issue the rations included in the above estimate. 

George Stoneman
Bvt. Maj. Genl U.S. Army
Comd'g

Transcription Notes:
I cant figure out what word comes before "ration" in the second half of the letter. The word comes up a few times. -The word is "Soup"