Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16029, Jacob Addison, Del.
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(3-1776)
Service
Del.
Addison, Jacob
Number
S.16029
carded
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Del. Addison, Jacob
S. 16029
carded

Ohio. 19.612
Jacob Addison
_ in the State of Ohio.- who was a Private in the lo. commanded by Captain Anetto.- of the Regt. commanded by Col. Neale in the Delaware.
line for six months.
$20

Transcribed on the Rolls of Ohio at the rate of 20. dollars 00 cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.

Certificate of Pension issued the 8. day of Augt. 1833 and sent to Charles C. Converse of Lauesoille, Ohio

Arrears to the 4th of March. 1833 - 40.00 Permanent allowance ending 4 Sept. 1833 10.00

$50.00

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by Wm R. Palmer Clerk Book E Vol. 8 Page one
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Order to pay Shelton to Hon A Harper
H.R. lb. Decem. 1837.
Letter to Hon A Harper & Auditor 14 Decm 1838
Paid at the Treasury under these Acts of the April 1838 from 4 Sept. 1839 to 4 March 1838 - Agt notified  January 1838
Dep certificate issued 25th March 1845, and sent to Hon A. Harper. Jamesville, Ohio
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Declaration of Jacob Addison in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress of the 7th of June, 1832.

State of Ohio County of Muskingum}

On this sixteenth day of November A.D. 1832. Personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas of Muskingum County, Jacob Addison a resident in the town of Putnam in the County and State oforesaid, aged seventy two [insert] [illegible] [end insert] on the 11th day of October last past, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the pension made by the act of congress passed June 7th 1832. That he enlisted in the early of the United States in the year 1780, in the first part of the month of May in that year, with the Delaware forces and served in the [illegible], the third battalion of the Delaware troops. that is, it was the battalion which was raised in that state on the third call for troops, under the following named officers, Colonel Henry Neele Major James Mitchell, Captain George Smith, that he was discharged in the month of November 1780, that he resided in the County of Sussex in the State of Delaware, that the troops began their March at a place about 10 miles from Lewistown and marched through [illegible] down [illegible], Wilmington, Philadelphia, Trenton, Elizabethtown and thence to the [illegible] of [illegible]. Washington, which was at that time on the north river; that he remained at the headquarters of Genl. Washington at that place during his whole town of six [illegible] that he was than at this time of the execution of Major Andre, having been on guard during the night of the 1st [illegible] the night previous to the execution of Andrew. That he assisted in building a fort at Dobbs Ferry on the north river, that he was in the battle
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during this [illegible] six [illegible] that at the expansion of six months he was discharged and returned here.

And the said Jacob Addison on his oath doth further declare that in the year 1780 he was called out and served under the following officers Colonel William Connell, Major William Polk, Captain Corde Hazard Liet. Elias Mason that is was sometime in March he was called out, that the troops with whom he served were employed in guarding against the landing of the refugees and [illegible] along an extent of fifteen miles on the Delaware Bay. [illegible] he was [insert] in [end insert] two engagements one in Slaughter Neck on the Delaware Bay and the other at leuden lerch Creek on the same bay, that in the first engagement Lient. Mason was shot through his thigh and died the wound. The first engagement took place in August, the second in about the first of [illegible] a short time before his discharge, which was in October 1781. that the day not known whether this last call was by the United States or by the State of Delaware, that he has no documenting evidence know of no person by whom he can prove the service, that he was a volunteer in both terms of service.

He [illegible] relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declared that his name is not on the pension roll of any state.

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid

Jacob Addison

Jno. Willson Co. Clerk
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20091
19.612
Jacob Addison
Ohio

Return

[scratched out]
5.11.12-14 17-
_ for 6 months.-

Charles Cleve Connor Esq

Janesville
Ohio [illegible]
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BRIEF in the case of Jacob Addison County of Muskingum in the State of Ohio
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 72
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period.
[scratched out] in 1780-
Vol -
Vol-1781-
Duration of Service.
Years, Months, Days.
                6     -----------
not stated-
Rank.
As a
Private
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
Gen. Washington
Col Neele, Capt Smith
Col Connell, Capt Hagard
5. In what battles was he engaged? None
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Sussex Co Delaware
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary & living [illegible]
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? [illegible] not certified to be credible
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned. 
Chs W. Forrest
Examining Clerk.
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This amended declaration of Jacob Addison in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th June 1832.

On this third day of May 1832 personally appeared the subscriber Jacob Addison, a resident in the town of Putnam, in the County of Muskingum and State of Ohio, aged seventy two years on the 11th October last past, before the honorably Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Muskingum the said Jacob being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath in Open Court, make the following declaration in addition to the declaration made by him on the 11th November A.D. 1832, in order to obtain the benefits of the pension made by the act of congress, passed June 7th, 1832; That he enlisted in the army of the United States as specified in his former declaration that he [illegible] as therein set forth for and during the first and complete term of six months, that he was called out in the first part of the May A.D. 1780 and was discharged in the first of the month of November in the same year. that he is unable to state [underlined] precisely [end underlined] or [underline] what [end underlined] day of the month he was called out on or what [underlined] day precisely [end underlined] he was discharged. but [insert] he is certain [end insert] that he was discharged in [underline] exactly six months [end underlined] from the day when called out, that he served as a private in the ranks under the officers and in [illegible] as stated in his former declaration, that during this said pension of six months he was wholly [illegible] in the service of the United States as a soldier and was engaged in no pursuits [insert] pursuit for [underline] himself [end underlined] [end insert] or civil employment, that he entered the service as a volunteer when the call was made for the Delaware troops as stated in the former declaration made by him, that he has no documentary evidence, that he at this time knows of two persons only who were with him and can testify to his term and manner of service during the said period of six months,
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until Solomon Salmon who was alive when last he heard of him is still living. That the only other person who was with him [insert] and who is now known to him [end insert], is Shephard Collins whose deposition is appended to this declaration, that the Delaware forces in which he served can at the end of six months discharged at the place where he served on the north river as  stated in his former declaration and that the [illegible] under their own officers marched as far as Philadelphia on their return home and that then they were all discharged by their officers "by word of mouth," that he has no written discharge. that what is [illegible] stated in this declaration is intended to apply to the service [underline] first [end underlined] set forth and stated in the first declaration. The said Jacob States, that he is unable to procure any other testimony or to state more precisely any facts in period of time in relation to the service mentioned in the [underline] second [end underlined] part of his first declaration.

And the said Jacob further declared that he was born in Sussex County in the State of Delaware about ten miles from Lexington on the 11th October A.D. 1760.

That his age was recorded in his father's prayer book, which is now lost, but that before the loss of the prayer book, he has entered the record in a blank page of his Bible, which is now in the possession of his son [illegible] who resides in the town of Montgomery in Clermont County in the State.

That he received no discharge in writing from the service.

That Richard Addison his nephew, Roger [illegible] father was his grandson, David Butt, Peter Short, Isaac Dutton, and Bartholomew Pittet, who resides in his present neighborhood[illegible] by a to his character for [illegible] and
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their belief for general representative of his service as a soldier of the Revolution.

And the said Jacob further stated, that since the above was written he has sent to Fayette County, in this state, and found that the aforementioned Solomon Salmon is still [insert] living [end insert] and his deposition is hereunto annexed.

The said Jacob hereby relinquishes any claim [illegible] to a pension as [illegible] except this present and he declared that his [illegible] on the pension roll of any [insert] [illegible] in the [end insert] state.

Sworn to and subscribed in Open court

Jacob Addison

Jno Willson J. Clk

This, George C. Ledwick, a clergyman residing in Ganesville, Muskingum County and William Blocks on of the same place, one of the associate judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Muskingum, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the above named Jacob Addison who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy three years of age, that [insert] he [end insert] is reported and believed in the neighborhood when he [illegible] to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that he served in the [illegible].

Sworn and subscribed before me John Williams Jr. clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Muskingum County in Open court.
John WIlliam Jr. Clk.

Geo C Sedwich Paster of the Baptist Church in Ganesville

William Blockson

And the said Court do hereby declared their opinion, after the investigation of the matter and putting the interrogations presented by the War Department, that the above received applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he
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states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that George C. Ledwick who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident I nthe said town of Ganesville and that William Blockson is a creditable person and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I John Willson Jr. Clerk of the said Court of Common Pleas do hereby [seal] the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in  the [seal] the application of Jacob Addison for a pension. In testimony whereof I hereto put my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Ganesville this 9th day of May A.D. 1833
Jno. Willson Jr. Clk
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I 16029

INVALID

File No. 16029
Jacob Addison
Prv Rev War

Act: June 7th 32

Index:-Vol. /, Page 3

[Arrangement of 1870]
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Shepherd Collens
Deposition
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State of Ohio Athens County } SS

This 18th day of April 1833

Before me Elijah Hatch an [illegible] judge in said county. Personally appeared Shepherd Collins a resident in Bernstownship in said county. And being by me duly sworn deposed and saith that he this deponent was a soldier in [insert] the [end insert] revolutionary war that the first of May in the year 1780 he enlisted in a company commanded by Capt. George Smith he enlisted for [illegible] this he enlisted in Sussex County in this state of Delaware marched to Wilmington from thence to Philadelphia from thence to headquarters on the Hudson river served the full term of six months during the whole term of six months he this deponent was acquainted with a soldier by the name of Jacob Addison who enlisted and served the full tour of six months in the same company with this deponent and was dismissed at the term. Since which time the deponent has not been acquainted with said Addison till lately but he is confident that Jacob Addision of Muskingum County is the same man and further this deponent sayeth not sworn and subscribed the day 8 year above written before me E hatch of [illegible] judge

Shepherd Collins

Elijah Hatch judge as aforesaid do certify that I am well acquainted with Shepherd Collins the above deponent and I believe him to be a man of truth and verity.

E. Hatch aforesaid judge
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The State of Ohio
Athens County ss

I Henry Bartlett Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County do hereby certify that Elijah Hatch Esquire before whom the within deposition of Shepard Collins was taken was at the time of taking the same and now is an associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for said County, and that the within signature purporting to be his is genuine.

In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court at Athens this 18th day of April A.D. 1833

Henry Bartlett Clerk
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The State of Ohio Fayette County SS

Personally appeared before me James  B Webster one of the acting associate judges of the Court of common pleas in and for the County  aforesaid Solomon Salmon a resident of the said county of Fayette, who being by me duly sworn deposed and saith, that he is acquainted with Jacob Addison now a resident of Muskingum County and State of Ohio, and he this [illegible] is informed and believed and that the said Jacob Addison, was a soldier of the revolutionary war, that he the said Addison and this [illegible] served for the fall term of six months together as soldiers aforesaid, that the said Addison served under Captain Smith, for the time aforesaid, that he belonged to a B regiment (as well as recollected) under the command of Colonel Henry Niel, (James Mitchell was the Major) that he the said Addison and this [illegible] rendezvoused at John Clousers in Desdise County and State of Delaware, from Clousers we marched to Wilmington, from there to Newcastle, there they took shipping and went to Philadelphia, from thence to Brunswich in the State of New Jersey, from thence to Trenton, from thence to Elizabethtown, that they were present at the time Major Andrew was hung, that we were discharged at Trenton. This [illegible] further states that at the time he and the said Addison served as soldiers aforesaid that he the Addison was in and about twenty
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two years of age as well as recollected and this he is the better enabled to recollect from his own age at the time, and further this [illegible] saith not.

     His
Solomon X Salmon
     Mark

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 24th day of April AD 1833 and I do further certify that Solomon Salmon who made and subscribed the foregoing affidavit, had been long a resident of the said county of Fayette, that I have been acquainted with him for near thirty years during all which time he had sustained and irreproachable reputation for truth and veracity.

James B. Webster
Associate Judge

The State of Ohio Fayette County SS

I Jesse Milikan clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in said for the County aforesaid do certify that the above [illegible] James B. Webster before whom the foregoing deposition of Solomon Salmon was taken, was at the time of [illegible] and certifying the same one of the retiring associate Judge of said county duly commissioned and [illegible], and that his signature is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my said office this 27th day of April A.D. 1833
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Hon Lewis [illegible] Secretary of War Sir [illegible]

I send you the amended declaration of Jacob Addison an applicant for a pension underr the late act of congress.

The original declaration was returned as being deficient in certain particulars pointed out in a pointed brief which accompanied it. The defects specified have been supplied in the amended declaration. I send [illegible] the original declaration and the brief, by [illegible] which with the [underline] amended [end underlined] declaration, your will [illegible] all the objections to the [underline] original [end underlined] have been removed by the [underline] amended [end underlined] declaration.

very respectifully
[illegible] 
Chas Cleve [illegible]

11 May 1833

Ganesville Ohio
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The amended Declaration of Jacob Addison.
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Jacob Addison 
20091
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State of Ohio Athens County } SS

This 26th day of October 1832 personally appeared before me Elijah Hatch one of the Judges of the Court of common pleas in said county. Shepherd Collins of said Athens county and being first duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he this deponent was a soldier in the revolution in the year 1780 that he belonged to a Company enlisted for six months commanded by Captain George Smith the deponent further states that he was acquainted with a soldier by the name of Jacob Addison who served in said company during the term of six months and was discharged at the end of said term since which time the deponent [insert] to [end insert] has not seen said Addison till this time but is confident that he is the same Jacob Addison who served with him as above stated.

Sworn to and subscribed in the day and year first above written

Shepherd Collins

E. Hatch } Judge

The State of Ohio Athens County SS}

I Henry Bartlett Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County do certify that Elijah Hatch Esquire before whom the above affidavit was made was on the 26th day of October last an associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas aforesaid County acting under the authority of this State and that the above Signature purporting to be his is genuine

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this first day of November A.D. 1832
Henry Bartlett Clerk
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I George C. Ledwick a clergyman residing in the town of Ganesville, in the County of Muskingum and State of Ohio, hereby certify that I am acquainted with Jacob Addison who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration; that I believe him to be seventy two years of age; that he is reported and believed in the neighborhood where he resided to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that I concur in that opinion

Sworn to and subscribed this 16th March 1832

G. C. Ledwich

Jno Willson Jr. Clerk

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the written and after putting the interrogations presented by the war Department, that the above named applicant was  revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that George C. Ledwick who has signed the above certificate is a clergyman and that his statement is entitled to credit.

I John WIllson Jr. Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in for the County of Muskingum do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jacob Addison for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at Ganesville this 27th day of November A.D. 1832.

Jno Willson Jr. Clerk
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Treasury Department
Second Comptroller's Office
December 28, 1838

Sir: 
     Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838 entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Jacob Addison____
a Pensioner on the Roll of the Cincinnati, Ohio, Agency, at the rate of Twenty_________Dollars per annum, under the law of the 7th June, 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept., 1837, to the 4th March, 1838.

Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptrolloer

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present
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Ganesvill Ohio 17'145

[illegible] A. Harper

ash New pension [illegible]. for Jacob Addison

A7 4TH. [illegible] 22/45
Pension Office

[illegible]
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Zanesville March 17, 1845 Hon. [illegible] Sir During the last session of Congress, the certificate of said Jacob Addelson pentined was filed amongst other papers in the clerk's office in of the of the one to tance date of pension payment Chairman of the Committee Pender died in that this is with did to the Folds to in his positin the out to fall to the Certificate an end to me, and it is Mistred, home negligent and cannot find it, my book of the hath going to deceit that on space, Delton, and in 1819 to the and there is no date of making in County this I have the house to with the Carpen
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Washington City 13th Dec. 1837

Sir
The enclosed letter of Document has
been forwarded to me, for the purpose
of obtaining for you, such order as will enable Mr  Addison to obtain his pension. May I ask this favor, that you will return the (?) to me, when the proper order is issued so that I may be enabled to pair the papers and the discretion associated in the letter of Mr Sturgiss
with great respects you
(?) Honorable (?)
Alan Harper
Hon J. Edwards
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Hon: James L. Edwards
Com: of Pensions
Washington City
Mr. Evans Dec 15
Hr. A. Harper
HR
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Jacob Addison which require further proof or explanation

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?

II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the County where he resided?

III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the County where he resided, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?

IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?

V. *Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grads in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? No

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?

VII. Has he made a relinquishment of very claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?

IX. Has the Clerk given his  certificate?

X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?
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XIV. [cross] If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?

If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? No

Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct?

XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?

XVI. [double cross] Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? 1. 2. 6. 7.

* QUURE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For ----- year ----- months, and ------days, I served as a ------ For ------ months and ------ days, I served as a ------; and for such service I claim a pension.
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3

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase [italics] about three or four months [end italics] is too indefinite, and all such a qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulates respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.

[cross] QUERE XIV. [italics] Proof of Service [end italics]
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.

[double cross] QUERE XVI. [italics] Mode of authenticating papers. [end italics]

In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereof by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.