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Sub-district – for care and support of their paupers are very limited, and they are taking no measures to better them in anticipation of the increase unavoidable by the stopage of Rations to indigent Freedpeople by Government, although some of the Overseers of the Poor have recommended the Counties to purchase a place where those can be taken and provided for that are helpless and have no homes or friends to provide for them.

I am Very Respectfully
Your Obdt. Servant.
E.A. Chandler
1st Lt. & Asst. Supt.