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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
U.S. Serial Set --WAR DEPARTMENT: Pension Office, October 31, 1835.
Sir:
In obedience to the instructions of the Secretary of War, given in conformity with the resolution of the Senate of the United States of the 5th of June, 1834, requiring "a statement showing the names of the several Pensioners who are now or may have been heretofore placed on the pension rolls, designating their rank, annual allowance, the sums which they have severally received, the laws under which their pensions have been granted, the State or continental line in they which they served, the date when placed upon the roll, their ages, and the States and Counties in which they severally reside, also, the names of the Pension Agents who have received compensation as such, and the amount of such compensation, an the act under which it was allowed, the names of the clerks who are and who have been employed in the Pension Office, and the sums paid them as compensation, with a statement of the aggregate sum paid in each State, and an aggregate statement of the whole sum disbursed on account of pensions; and that he be also directed to report to the Senate the regulations adopted at the War Department relating to the proof necessary to entitle claimants to the benefit of the act of June 7, 1832," I have the honor to inform you that the statements have been made; and, in accordance with the resolution of the Senate of the U. States of the 30th June, 1834, requesting the Secretary of War "to furnish the information heretofore called for by resolution of the 5th instant, in regard to Pensions, to the Secretary of the Senate, during the vacation, arranging the names of the Pensioners by States and Counties; and that, upon receiving them, they be printed by States and Counties, and five numbers of the list for each State be transmitted by the Secretary to each Court of Record in such State," have been transmitted to you, arranged as directed by the last mentioned resolution.
I have also prepared and sent to your office a list of persons who receive stipends under the act of May 15, 1828, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 3d of March last, requiring that "a List of the Pensioners
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on the rolls in the Treasury Office be printed and distributed, as heretofore ordered in regard to those in the War Office, with the addition of the names of the Agents."
I now enclose a copy of the regulations adopted by this Department "relating to the proof necessary to entitle claimants to the benefit of the act of June 7, 1832..
I am, with great respect, your obedient servant.
J. L. EDWARDS, Commissioner of Pensions.
WALTER LOWRIE, Esq., Secretary of the Senate.
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