Monongalia mirror. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1855, 1855-05-12
THE DRUGDEPA RT I ii
TO OFFICERS, SOLDIERS, &
Senmen, de-, of aIl Wars,-theif
Widows and Minor Children.
5. NJ. KNIGHT, Attorney for Govt Claima t

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8. M.KNfGHT, Attorney for Govt Claima nts,
1855. siafi . tif WAsHrSeroN, ID. c. i
f7toNTINUEsto give prompt and personal at
" tention to the prosecution Of Claims of cy-
cry description against the General Government,
Department, Pension and Bounty Land Bureaus,
Patent and General Land Offices, and Board OF
Claims ~ Us ~ ii1zi : sJf4s
An experience Of Jesrs, and a familiarity with
the means Of obtaining the earliest and most IA
yorabie action on Claims, with his facilities for
the dispatch Of business, justify him in assuring
I his Correspondent, claimants, and the Public
generally, that inetests intrusted TO hib keeping
will not be neglected. .
Pension, Bounty Land, Patent, and Pub
lie Land Laws.
IHehas nearly ready for gfa.aitols distribltion
among his business Correspondents, land those
who may become such, a neat pamphlet con-
tanning synopsis Of the existing Pension, Boun-
" Land, Patent and Public Land Laws; down
to the end Of the late congress-includius the
Bounty Land Act Of 50 March, 1856, 4
under which all who have heretofore received
less than 1850 acres are now entitled to addition
al land; said act grants also 100 acres 20 all Of.
GERS, Nou.commissioned offcen, Chaplains, Sol
asNt sAsebCt1t aiiu
Indians, OF the army, including State Troops,
Volunteers, and Militia-and all Officers ,seamen,
Ordinary seamen, Marines, Clerks, and Lands
men, of the Navy, not heretofore provided for,
who have served not less than fourteen days (un-
less in battle At any period since l716; and TO
the widows and minor children of all such per-
sons entitled, and deceased. -,
[ This pamphlet contains I" Forms Of Applica-
tom more iull and compile than any elsewhere
10 BIO found adapted tothe wants Of every class
OF claimants, under tho act, with eopious ecis,
ions and i.is,ructions of;the Department, and
practical suggestions as TO the course to be pur-
sued in suspended or rejected cases.
Parties moi wishing 10 avail themselves Of the
facilities afforded BY this Office in securing prompt
and personal supsrihfendsnes Of their. claims At
the Departments, can obtain copies Of the above
pamphlet by RENTING thirty cents in postage
stamps.
inducements to q Correspondents.
Correspondents who prepare and forward ca
ses for management by this Agency will be dealt
with literally Supplied with all necessary blanka
gratis, and sept c6nssantly advised Of the chang
es that from time to time occur in the execution
Of the law. b IA - = "a
Itiswithin the subscriber,s power 10 direct his
Correspondents TO the locality fyery many per-
sons entitled under the late act and having OBJ
tanned several thousand Land Warrants under
former laws he is in possession Of data that will
materially assist IN securing additional bounty.
Fees, below the usual r1tes-and contingent
upon the admission Of CltiTns. 4 -
The highest cash prices given Tor Land Wal.
rants, Revolutionary Scrip, and Illinois Land
Patents. &. M. KNIGHT.
March 81, ls55.-4t. Washington City.