Records Relating to the Issuance of Rations
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of South Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1870
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M869, Series 9
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content: Archival materials
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content: A specific function of the Bureau was to issue rations to the destitute of the State as well as to soldiers. Records pertaining to the issuance of rations consist of the following series: a ration book, lists of destitutes, ration returns, estimates of rations required, ration reports, a receipt for rations, applications for relief, bonds of planters for supplies, proceedings of the Commission on Liens, and a register of orders given planters for provisions for black employees.