White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1857-08-06
LAW AND AGENCY.

viii give his attention to business general
y 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-
pdTtments, in which claimants may require coun-
sci. He will not be prepared before the LIST of
July to enter into correspondence on such bust
ness, as his time will be wholly engrossed until
July in closing up his affairs connected with the
American 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 COntinentalSOfi-
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 pay under the resolve of Oath Au-
gust, 1870, will be prepared TO prosecute such
claims, if the bill reported to pay such claims,
hitherto favorasly acted upda 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 haLf-Pay Claims, which remain un-
adjusted, and also 70 any and all other classes of
demands upon the Government, which NAV 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 lst
of July, TO furnish Circulars TO all correspond
ents, giving them such information as thew NAV
require before engaging his services, and 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 a 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 lrketheT not 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 a copy thereof to
HIM full lists of the officers aforesaid for the Jhir-
teen original States. The publication of these
lists will efectually remove one main objection
10 the proposed bill which has been raised by
some members of Congress, to-wit: that these
claims we're kRolcH only TO 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 oHe-haL or any other
portion OF their claims to their attorneys, the
government has no right to complain. If men,
bers of Congress, instead of Illuminating their
a. L
ton of the lists of claims embraced in every
law they enact $50 far as the records of the gov
eminent furnish the names Of parties entitled
they would render far more valuable service
to their constituents. than by opposing a law to
paw Just claims on the pretext that agents will
receive large fees for their services.
II 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 aesnts in the recovery of their
commissions, whether high or low. The publica-
ton of the lists in the newspapers, is; in his
Judgment, q simple act Of justice 70 claimants
and it is but just TO himself and cannot possibly
be complained of by Others when he states, that
for the prosecution and recovery Of the claims
of Offers Of TIE Continental Army, whose
names are on the lists referred to, his commits
sions will uniformly be fUe per cent. on the amount
recovered. His commissions in other cases will
be matter Of special contract.
To save all unnecessary correspondence, the
undersigned states, that he edhRot attend to
claims Of soldiers for pensions under the act of
1882, nor can he make investigations into any
pension cases suspended" by the Pension Of
fee, without the prepayment of fee. The ca
ses of widows, under the act Of Sd of February,
1853, who are entitled to arrears from l54s, will
be prosecuted in the Court Of Claims for q COM
mission of ten per cent. on the arrears.
Letters making inquiries about claims Of va
rious descriptions, cannot be answered, unless
fee accompanies the application. The time re-
CURED to ezanine cases, and the necessary ex-
pense of correspondence, in time, postages, &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
9 letter enclosing postage stamp and asking
for his " Circular to eoTTespondezts.''
VESPASIAN ELLIS,
aug. 6, 1857. Washington City, D. c.