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No. 14.

Bureau of Subsistence, Richmond, February 11, 1865.
Colonel L. B. Northrup, C. G. S.:
Sir — In response to your query as to the contracts made in this bureau for supplies from abroad, I have to state, generally, what I have elaborated recently at some length in written testimony to a joint committee of both houses of Congress, that all the contracts that I have made have failed for various reasons. At this time I understand that the Bureau has no power, under a recent order, to make contracts for supplies payable in cotton in the Department of Alabama, Mississippi and East Louisiana.

Very respectfully,

(Signed)

Frank G. Ruffin, Lieutenant-Colonel and C. S.

Richmond, VA. 1876.

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