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Augusta County Va: March 28 1866.

The Bureau of Refugees Freedmen & Abandoned Lands
Winchester, Va.

As president of the Board of Overseers of the Poor of Augusta County, I beg to make to the following reply to your Commissioner of the 26th Dist.
I cannot undertake to anticipate what the County Court of said County - (the only body having power to raise money for County purposes) will do at its annual levy Courts indorsement, but I feel authorized to say that the Board over which I preside will ask that a sufficient sum shall be levied for to meet the necessities of the destitute persons having a claim upon legal residence in the County without regard to color or class - and I entertain no doubt but the said Court will make such levy and to that end will assess an equal poll as capitulation tax on all male inhabitants of the fixed age, & who may not be exempt on account of physical infirmity.
We expect to provide as heretofore for all the destitute alike, [[strikethrough]] we [[/strikethrough]] if our people can stand the burden. We have a house of reception for the paupers - (to which is attached a farm) capable of accommodating about sixty persons - and have always made special appropreations (administered