Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1835-10-02
TO 1'nE EDIyOKS OF Y.JIr r,

X.
In your paper OF the 9TH ult, there appeared an Ad
dress to surviving officers and soldiers the Revolution
and the heirs of those who deceased who have not
received their land bounty for services war; and
which Address complains of the illegal course pursued
by The Executive and Council in their decisions of ma
ny OF such cases as have come before paem. And il
that you have deemed il proper append re
mark two of your the Of that Address Of
which the writer of that Address thinks Inc las gond
cause of complaint
la your remarks you say, that on one ponl YOU Ina
made enquiry, that is what amount of cases had
been alowcd-and that making enquiry az the otTccs
you were informed that precise estimate had been
made out Of the claims allowed and reiccted-bn tLat
10 ont IF 20 claims Lad being huned ont I'm spte
htors," &c ~ 'P''"'
The writer of the address does believe that there !. no
disposition on your part to add 10 the PreSSi1c nqiSe-
presentations which have been bssy circulated bv
other Pcrs0nogrS, yet he feels under obligation to sax
that your remarks well calculated produce nm err
impression the public ni.d and Ia.
difficulties which claimants labor under to obtoin
their just demands As 10 the GIs branch of yonr en-
quiry Mc offices" for the amount of claims ,lJd
by the Executive would ask, why you sauald have felt
yourself under that necessity il YOU were appraised of tie
course of proceedings in such cases? / would ask what
Office did you apply to for inontnalOn? 1 am as well
SATISFIED as that the Sun now shines, that you did re-
ceiye your information from Register of the and
Ohce-becanse he would have turned you the records
lie would have shewn you the allowances made lie
would have shewu you the aInoulA OF warrants drawn
and he would have sbewn you how it s that 600 war
rants and upwards numerically have been used in draw
ing land for only the services of rer upwards of sir
thousand persons lie would have shewn Won that in
81 warrants have issued To nv ibe I,nd a.
lowed for the services of I5celenant in the Navy
(see Michael James case and that in f. W cases comm
Tatvriy does one warrant IN sufice-That The
number OF warrants is generally IN proportion TO the
number Of heirs who uly be- Interested ia the CASE and
the wish OF those heirs ~ have their respective Sc
parae fr0nf The Others-and lie would moreover b,ve
told you, that he had knowledge that cases out of
20 were bad, being hunted out by spectators" SC
say, that he would not have applied such remarks to
c0scS and gcnucmenand tell you that there is no other
officer OF whom you could possibly ret correct norn,a
ton as TO The number Of warrants and amounts allowed
and that that officer in the habit of connecfn
abusive aud reproachfUl language with his adyices and
reports.
The Commissioner of the General Land Office at
Washington would " called on, have informed you Of
TIE amount Of the Of allowances over she auor
prIaons, aud that the whole amount Of appropri.ons
made ~ ihc Government, is LEO 900 acres md that i'm
consequence Of the parsnonio0s appropriations land TO
meet these claims, the officers and soldiers will have 10
lose 6ceu in the bundsed Of their claims which
have been allowed for the last two or three vensand
them " you will apply to any honest man i'm the COM
muuity he VIII say i0 you, hat IS unjust nd now
beg leave to repeat the enqutyat what Office did Won
receive The niornaiOn that 10 Of 20 cases were
bad, being hunted out by spccoatOrs,' &c. know Of
no oiIcrf but Tic Governor, and the members of lis
Council, and the Revolutionary Commissioners who have
had the opportunity ludgc Of the goodness or bsAnes
If claims which have been presented And as for ~,
Revolutionary Commissioner, | think | can voucl thai
nc never used the expression that 90 out Of % eases
were bad, being hunted oal by specuatofs" SC? lie
has too much Of the utlk Of human kipdneas 10 nsnu
ate that any claim is bad because il is hunted ont by
Spectator and much information In bis department
To fear imposition from spectators And If YOU had
applied 10 hun, he would have said that the Legislature
Of your State has by 10 directed that should collect
together oil the Of officers and soldiers who
served IN the War Of the Revolution and who had not
received land bounty; and that having discharged that
doy the Legislature direc;ed said namcs TO be publish
ed add scattered through The Stacand that IA alt pro.
JabHity ttgf hue circumstance had induced many per-
sons having claims to bring them forward. lie would
have told you, that The most numerous branch Of the