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not the attorney-of-record nor was the money, as shown by his own statement, towards the claimant within the limitation prescribed in the enclosed Circular (Dec. 20, 1868), and had his claim been presented to this office for adjustment it would have been at once rejected.

[[stamped]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamped]]

Mr. Ray, in his explanation (on file in this office) made to a Commission appointed by this Bureau, and which recently sat in Louisville, Ky. for the investigation of complaints preferred by claimants for bounty, &c, states that the amount in question ($100) was paid by him to Mr. Carr at the request of Mrs. Drain.  Whether this be true (which I am not disposed to doubt) is not viewed as extenuating an act which Mr. Ray must have known to be irregular and in violation of the rules and regulations of the Bureau as well as of the spirit of the law governing the payment