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condition; their sufferings are patent to every conservator of the poor, yet no effort is being made to relieve them, The City Council as now organized seems to stand between the City treasury and the widow with her helpless family of children. There is no reason why the helpless poor of Richmond should not be properly cared for by those who are responsible for their condition. The chairman of the committee on the poor would like very well to have the Bureau again administer to their wants but declines asking us for assistance best such a course might be acknowledging that the Bureau is a necessity. This fact rebels will never admit, they would sooner see hundreds of their people die of starvation than admit that the Bureau is indispensable at this time. In the County of Henrico the indigent white are comparatively few, a small number only are a public charge to the county. A majority