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The Daily Phoenix
Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina
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A joint resolution was passed authorizing the Secretary of War to issue food supplies through the Freedmen's Bureau to prevent starvation among destitute persons in Southern and Southwestern States, using unexpended appropriations for freedmen and refugees, without a new $1,000,000 appropriation.
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The joint resolution for the relief of the destitute in the Southern and South-western States does not contain a specific appropriation of $1,000,000, as originally proposed, but was passed in the following form:
That the Secretary of War be, and hereby is, empowered and directed to issue supplies of food sufficient to prevent starvation and extreme want to any, and all classes of destitute or helpless persons in these Southern and South-western States, where failure of the crops and other causes have occasioned wide-spread destitution; that the issues be made through the Freedmen's Bureau under such regulations as the Secretary of War shall prescribe; and to that end the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed, through the Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau, to apply so much as he may deem necessary for the purpose aforesaid of unexpended moneys heretofore appropriated to supply freedmen and refugees with provisions, or rations, provided that the expenditure shall not extend beyond the present appropriation already made for the Freedmen's Bureau.
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Southern And South Western States
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passed without specific $1,000,000 appropriation; authorizes use of existing unexpended funds for food supplies to prevent starvation.
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Joint resolution empowers Secretary of War to issue food supplies via Freedmen's Bureau to destitute persons in Southern and Southwestern States due to crop failure and other causes; issues under regulations prescribed by Secretary; applies necessary unexpended moneys from prior appropriations for freedmen and refugees.