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 (tentlkmrn : I beg leave, respectfully, to call your attention to the provision of the Appropriation Art. 
 passed by tbe Legislature on the 17th of December, 1863, requiring the Boards tor tin- relief of tin 1 families <>i 
 Soldiers to " make, respectively, an annual report, on the 1st day of November in each year, to the State A ud- 
 itor, to In", by that officer, consolidated and reported to the next su< -latum." 
 
 The annual report here required i^ understood to lie in the place and stead of tl hitherto made 
 
 directly to tin- Legislal a 
 
 To enable the undersigned to condense from these reports .-ill important information, and to embody the 
 same in n general report i" be submitted t" tin' Legislature on tin- first day ol 1 1 * . - session, the following sug- 
 gestions aii- respect fn I h snhmitted : 
 
 1. Appropriation by Legislature. — It is desirable that the n- of tin- respective Boards .'ml 
 on the 80th 1I.-1 \ •'! September, and that their annual accounts hi 1 made n|> to that Hay These accounts should 
 
 exhibit tin' sums oi mom >m tin 1 State Treasun I te date of t.lic last an il reporl 10 the 
 
 Legislature; tin 1 manner in which the said sums have been disbursed; the agji lumber of families re- 
 nd therebj ; and tin- numher of adults ami children em bra I in tin' families so relieved. 
 
 2. Tax in Kind. It would furnish the materials tor .1 1, , u and valuable tabular 
 
 <t ate nt ol the results ol thi- lax, it the Boards will submit in their annual 1 ted abstract of 
 
 the qusntitj of rice, corn, ami wheat, ami of cotton yarns, cloth, leather, salt, and other manufacl area receive' I 
 h\ them respect ively, nn<ier the A <-t of the 19th of December, I W53, imposing a tax in kind for "the support of 
 the families of soldiers." \ml the value of this information would he greatly enhanced if a statement can he 
 furnished by each Board "I the quantity ol grain and manufactures collected in their respective Districts or 
 Parishes; the quantity received from, or sent to. other Districts or Parishes tinder tin- provisions of tin 
 
 \ 1 : the mode adopted tin' the distribution of the articles so collected ami received; the number of families 
 
 thereby relieved ; ami tin- amount of funds derived from tic sal commutation ol the tax in kind and paid 
 
 into the State Treasury tor apportionment. 
 
 3. Supplies from Commissary It is also very desirable that a «tatement be submitted by 
 each Board "f the cotton cloth, cotton and wool tarda, rue. corn, salt, and other supplies purchased during 
 the year from the Commissary General of the State ; tin 'te sum paid to him for each description of 
 the sai' I supplies ; the mode adopted for the distribution of the sa her by sale or in kind ; the cin 
 stances and number ol the families to whom the said distribution was made; the prices charged for tht 
 supplies when sold; tin- aggregate amount received from the sal ription of supplies, and the 
 appropriation ami disbursement of the amounts so received. 
 
 It is not intended hj the foregoing suggestions to interfert in any manner with the form or snbjectf 1 
 matter of the reports ot the Boards addressed by this Circular These are loft, as heretofore, to the discretion 
 ■ I each Board, man a nf whom have exhibited in previous returns a commendable anxiety to place permanently 
 ii]i"tt record a detailed account of all their transactions in the matter of the responsible trust committed to 
 them by the Legislature The main purpose ot this communication is t.. secure, as far as practicable, unifor- 
 mity in respcel to the character "1 the in form, -it ion to be embraced in the reports ol the various Boards, and to 
 insure, it possible, the receipt at this office ol the said reports on or he fore the day fixed by the Legislator 
 their being sent in. All suggestions and recommendations from the smM Boards, having for their object the 
 advantage of the beneficiaries under their charge, or contemplatin 11 carrying out of the pur- 
 poses ol the Legislature in their behalf, will be submitted by the nndersig ! In that body on the earliest 
 
 practicable daj of the approaching si se 
 
 With greal respeel I am, gentlemen. 
 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 .1 \MK.- TII'I'Ki;. 
 
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