Your letter in relation to the claim of Joseph Howard, assigned to Hickox & Brothers, is received– In answer to your enquiry, as to why it is again presented after having been once rejected, I can only say it was done under the impression that since it’s rejection, some law of Congress had passed which might authorize it’s allowance– At the time my attention was asked to it, I was too busy to investigate it myself, and therefore had it sent to you, hoping then, as I do now, that you might find a law oth authorizing it’s allowance– On your final determination, please write me again–2