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[Second Auditors Office?]
of the
Treasury Department
Winders Building

[illegible] 12th/1865

Sir,

In reply to [yours?] of May
13th in relation to the claims
of the widow of J.R. Vineyard
I have to inform you that
the claim has been [illegible] for
[illegible] nearly a year, only
[waiting?] for [permission?] from
the [Indian?] Office to so make [illegible]
on the 10th of August 1864 a letter
was written from this office to [that?]
[asking?] for authority [illegible] [illegible]