White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1857-11-05
LAW AND AGENCY.

La" ANU A6ENGY.
A FTER the month Of June, the undersigned
IA will give his attention to business general.
" in the Court Of Claims, and in the other Courts
held in theDistriet Of Columbia-also, to mat
tiers pending in Congress and in the several De-
paytmsnts, in which claimants may require coun-
sci. He win not be prepared before the lat 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
American Organ.
The undersigned, having obtained, during the
twenty odd years which he devoted mainly to
Revolutionary Claims, at Washington, a large
amount Of facts and proofs connected with the
services Of officers Of the Revolution, and haV-
ing complete list of all those Continental OH
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 9th Au-
gust, 1850, will be prepared to prosecute such
claims, if the bill reported tn 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
ueLnanuS upOn Tue OOfernA1cnbJ WHICH may De
of sufficient magnitude to afford q 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 thew may
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
feeTs 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. 1850
DESTROYS of placing within the reach Of all the
descendants of Revolutionary Officers the means
of ascertaining ichether or 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
Eicatisn, to all publishers of newspapers who will
give this advertisement three Insertions in their
papors respectively land send copy thereof TO
HIM full lists of the efeers Aforesaid for he tkiy
Teen 0T1q1H1t OL0Ie8. ne 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 we're knolcn only TO Goenfs, who would
charge exorbitant commissions for the -presecu.
ton and recovery of them, leaving but little 70
the claimantsA
IF claimants, with a full knowledge of their
rights, think proper to give ons-haI or any other
norton of their claims 10 their ATTORNEYS. the
government has no RIGHT IN complain. II mem.
hers of Congress, instead of Eliminating their
wrath AGAINST sgeats. would procure the p1hIica.
ton of the lists of claims embraced in every
law thew enact Sso far "a the records of the INV
eminent furnish the names of parties entitled.
thew would render far more valuable service
IN their constituents. than by opposino a law tn
nav inst claims on the pretext that AGENTS will
raceive Iarc, fees for tbrir services
II il NOT however. the nurnose of the nnder.
stoned 10 interfere. in any manner. with mem.
hers of Congress, in the discharge of their du-
Ties. nor with agents in the recovery of their
ro,,r,;s.;sns whether higb or low Tho nnbI;c,.
t;on Of tba.I;sts in the newsnoners !. IN b;s
Judgment, ssinple act of Justice 10 claimants