White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1857-09-10
LAW AND AGENCY. .

FTER the month of June, the undersigned
IA wiH give his attention to business general
" in the Court of Claims, and in the other Courts
held in the District Of COlumbia-also, to mat
tiers pending in Congress and in the several De-
parfmenfs, in which claimants may require eoun-
sci. He viii not be prepared before the LIST OF
July to enter into correspondence on such bust
ness. as his time viii be wholly engrOssed until
July in closing up his affairs connected with the
AmerieGR Organ.
The undersigned, having obtained, during the
twenty odd years which he devoted mainly to
Revolutionary Claims, at Washington, large
amount Of facts and proofs connected with the
services of officers of the Revolution, and hav-
ing a complete list Of all those Continental OFF,
GERS who were promised halfpay by the several
resolves of Congress, and of those also whose
widows and children were entitled to "seven
years half paw " under the resolve of 9th Au-
gust, 1880, will be prepared to prosecute such
claims, if the I'LL reported to pay such claims,
hitherto favOrably acted upon in both Houses of
Congress, at different times, shall become law;
and of this but little doubt is entertained.
The undersigned will also give his especial
attention to those Virginia Bounty Land Claims
and Virginia halfpay Claims, which remain un-
adjusted, and also to any and all other classes of
demands upon the Government, which may be
of sufficient magnitude to afford reasonable
compensation
Prompt attention will be given to the collec
ton of Individual debts, and to all professional
business in the Courts of the District.
The undersigned will be prepared BY the LIST
of July, to furnish Circulars to all correspond
ents, giving them such information as theT may
require before engaging his services, anu which
Circulars will save much time and labor in cor
respondence. They will be sent to all who may
desire them.
He will also be prepared to furnish to those
who may require them (and for reasonable
compensation full and complete lists Of the Of
feers of the Continental Army whose cases are
embraced in the bills which have been pending
in CONGRESS for the last two or three years, and
on which, as before stated, favorable action has
been had in each House at different sessions of
Congress.
DESTROYS of placing within the reach of all the
descendants Of Revolutionary Officers the means
of ascertaining urhetheT net the names of their
ancestors are found upon the authentic rolls Of
the Army, among those embraced in the bills
referred TO, the undersigned will furnish for pub
LEGATION, to all publishers Of newspapers who will
give this advertisement three insertions in their
papers respectively (and send copy thereof to
him) full lists Of the officers aforesaid for the ir
teen original States. The publication Of these
lists will effectually remove one main objection
10 the proposed bill which has been raised by
some members of Congress, to-wit: that these
claims were kROlcn only 10 agents, who would
charge exOrbitant commissions for the presecu-
ton and recovery Of them, leaving but little to
the claimants
If claimants, with full knowledge of their
rights, think proper to give One-hGLf, rany other
portion of their claims to their attorneys, the
L. -, 60 oOv,v1afp
bers of Congress, instead of Illuminating their
wrath against agents, would procure the publica-
ton of the lists of claims embraced in every
law they enact, $50 far as the records Of the gov
ernment furnish the names of parties entitled,)
they would render far more valuable service
to their constituents, than by opposing law to
pay Just claims on the pretext that agents will
receive large fees for their services.
1t is not, however, the purpose of the under
signed to interfere, in any manner, with mem
bers of Congress, in the discharge Of their du
ties, nor with agents in the recovery of their
commissions, whether high or low. The pnblica-
ton of the lists in the newspapers, is, in his
Judgment, simple act of justice to claimants
and it is but just to HIMSELF and cannot possibly
be complained of by others when he states, that
for the prosecution and recoveryof the claims
Of Officers of the Continental Army, whose
names are on the lists referred to, his commits
sions vii! uniformly be fUeper cent on the amount
His commissions in other cases will
be A matter of special contract.
To save all unnc cessary correspondence, the
undersigned states, that he cannot attend to
claims Of soldiers for pensions under the act of
1882, nor can he make Investigations into any
pension cases " suspended" by she Pension Of
fee, without the prepayment Of a lee. The ca
ses of widows, under the act of 81 Of February,
1858, who are entitled to arrears from $40, will
be prosecuted in the Court of Claims for COM
mission of ten per cent. on the arrears.
Letters making inquiries about claims of va
riOus descriptions, cannot be answered, unless a
fee accompanies the application. The time re-
quired TO erGnliRe cases, and the necessary ex-
pense of correspondence, in time, hostages, &C.,
&c, forbid such examinations, without some COM
pensation therefor.
Persons who may wish to know on what terms
generally, the undersigned will investigate and
prosecute claims, may learn, by addressing him
a letter enclosing postage stamp and asking
for his I" Circular 10 correspondence
VESPASIAN ELLIS,
aug. 6, 1857. Washington City, D. C.
c. &. BALDWIN.