2,310 59
Fuel and Lights 344 03
Fitting up Depository, including repairs 619 13
Insurance on Stock 244 00
Postages 940 66
Miscellaneous 668 11
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Total $21,914 86
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RELIEF COMMITTEE.--This Committee was organized in April, 1863, and had
for its object, during the first months of its existence, the relief of
the wants of soldiers; but finding a Committee of women unequal to the
proper performance of this duty, and at the same time having had brought
before them the great necessities of the families of our volunteers,
they resigned to other hands the care of the soldiers, and determined to
devote themselves to the mothers, wives, and children, of those who had
gone forth to battle for the welfare of all.

The rooms in which this work has been carried on, are at the South-east
corner of Thirteenth and Chestnut streets.

Two Committees have been in attendance daily to receive applications for
relief, work, fuel, etc. Persons thus applying for aid are required to
furnish proof that their sons or husbands were actually soldiers, and
are also obliged to bring from some responsible party a certificate of
their own honesty and sobriety. It then becomes the duty of the
Committee in charge to visit the applicant, and to afford such aid as
may be needed.

The means for supplying this aid have been furnished principally through
generous monthly subscriptions from a few citizens, through the hands
of Mr. A. D. Jessup. Donations and subscriptions, through the ladies of
the Committee, have also been received, and from time to time,
acknowledged in the printed reports of the Committee.

It has been the aim of the Committee to provide employment for the
women, for which adequate compensation has been given. The Sanitary
Commission furnished material, which the Relief Committee had cut and
converted into articles required for the use of the soldiers by the
Sanitary Commission. Thirty-seven thousand nine hundred and fifteen
articles have been made and returned to the Commission