, free of charge.
Finding the supply of work from this source inadequate to the demands
for it, the Committee decided to obtain work from Government
contractors, and to pay the women double the price paid by the
contractors. Twenty thousand one hundred and seventy-four articles were
made in this way, and returned to the contractors who were kind enough
to furnish the work. Eleven hundred and twenty-nine articles have been
made for the freedmen, and five hundred and five for other charities;
making in all, fifty-nine thousand seven hundred and twenty-three
articles.

Eight hundred and thirty women have been employed in the two years
during which the labors of the Committee have been carried on; and it is
due to the women thus employed to state, that of the number of garments
made, but two have been missing through dishonesty.

The sources from which work has hitherto been obtained having failed,
through the blessed return of peace, and the destitution being great
among those near and dear to the men whose lives have been given to
purchase that peace, the Committee have determined not to cease their
labors during the present winter.

Two hundred women, principally widows, are now employed in making
garments from materials furnished by the Committee. These garments are
distributed to the most needy among the applicants for relief.

More than four hundred tons of coal have been given out to the needy
families of soldiers during the past two years, the coal being the gift
of a few coal merchants.

The receipts of the Committee have been as follows:

From Subscriptions and donations $28,300 00
From Entertainment given for the benefit of the Committee 1,444 00
From Contractors in payment for work done 1,681 31
From the Sanitary Commission 2,551 50
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Total $33,976 81
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This amount has all been expended, with the exception of two hundred and
forty-eight dollars and forty-seven cents, which balance remained in the
hands of the Treasurer on the 31st of December, 1865.

WISCONSIN SOLDIER'S AID SOCIETY.

Early in the summer of 1861, Mrs. Margaret A. Jackson, widow of the late
Rev. William Jackson, of Louisville, Kentucky, in connection with Mrs.
Lou