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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen &c.
Hd Qrs Asst Commissioner
Raleigh N.C. Jan. 19th 1867

Murphy  Lieut. P.E.
Asst Supt
Lincolnton N.C.

Lieutenant

I am directed by the Act Asst Commissioner to transmit enclosed communication of Jan 15th from Adjt Genls Office for your information and action.

Very respectfully
Your Obdt Servant
Jacob F. Chur.
Bt Lt Col & A.A.A. Genl

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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen &c.
Hd Qrs Asst Commissioner
Raleigh N.C. Jan. 19th 1867

Cogswell  Col M.
Supt Cent Dist
Raleigh N.C.

Colonel

I am directed by the Acting Asst Comr to request you to forward to these Hd Qrs without delay copies of all provision returns approved by him since Dec 1st for your district.  [[Footnote 1]]  [[Footnote 2]]

Very respectfully
Your Obdt Servant
Jacob F. Chur.
Bt Lt Col & A.A.A. Genl

[[Footnote 1]] Retd Jan 23rd and filed in this office.
[[Footnote 2]] Copy of same sent to Lieut Col Stephen Moore.

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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen &c.
Hd Qrs Asst Commissioner
Raleigh N.C. Jan. 19th 1867

Edie  Bt Col J.R.
Supt Western Dist
Salisbury N.C.

Colonel

The Asst Commissioner has received through the hands of his Excellency the Governor a list of names of the extreme indigent of Union County.  The list which is prepared and forwarded by John D. Stewart, President of the Poor Wardens embraces in all the names of 546 whites and 162 Blacks who are represented to be in need of immediate assistance.
A. Weatherby of Guilford County reports a list of 73 white families and 82 children and of 20 blacks.  All destitute and in need of help from some source.
R.T. Hardin Clerk of the Co Court reports from Jefferson Ashe County that there are in that County 23 families White and Colored in a state of destitution.  The Asst Commissioner directs that you will cause the Agents of the Bureau in Union and Guilford Counties to communicate with the persons making these reports and make immediate requisitions for supplies enough to prevent actual suffering.  It is hardly credible that the destituted should be so much great among the Whites than among the black population and you will direct your officers and Agents to investigate particularly every case of reported necessity before making an issue of rations which is to keep at the lowest possible limit.
In no case will an issue be authorized above the 16000 rations per Month which the Commissioners are instructed to keep on hand in your district for this purpose.  The Asst Commission directs that the Agent at Lenoir make inquiry into the destitution in Ashe County with a view of ascertaining if aid is actually needed from the U.S. Government.  The cases reported are so few that it can be no great hardship if that County is required to provide for her own poor without external aid.  In consolidating Provision returns your approval should be based on lists of needy persons actually furnished you by your Assistant Superintendents.