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families and have sufficient to support them until another crop is harvested, but the greater part are without any thing save what they can pick up from day to day as they can find opportunity In this way they make out to get food and something to cover their backs though of the very poorest kind. The Bureau Store affords some relief in Clothing to most destitute. Clothing has been issued to 63 destitute persons as follows Viz: 5 Infty Coats, 2 Jackets, 8 Great Coats, 27 Trousers, 42 Shirts, 13 Drawrers, 31 Shoes, 13 Blankets.

The Clothing was not received in season to reach the other Divisions so as to be issued and reported in this month but is now being distributed.

The majority of the Freedmen live in those Counties through which the Rail Road passes, and here the most destitution is found.

In those Counties lying over the Mountains and away from the Rail Road, provisions are more plentiful and can be procured at a

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