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"Destitute Ration" is to cease. There are issued to the Freedmen from this office the following number of rations


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[[| No | Class | Remarks|]]
|--|--|--|

Whites
|  1   | Men |Helpless and very aged| 
|  11  |Women | Widows and Helpless|
|  6   |Children | Helpless Infants|

Freedmen

|  57   |Men | Helpless and very aged |
| 210   |Women |Widows with large families and soldiers wives|
| 166   | Children | Helpless Infants|

[[\end table]]


every effort has been made since I took charge of this office to reduce the number of rations issued and there has been a large number cut off which has I learn in many instances resulted in suffering and what the result

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---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-03-05 10:51:40 to remove [[underline][] and to put into a table format.