White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1857-09-17
AW- AND AGENOY..

AFTER the month Of June. the undersigned
~. VIII 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
parfments, in which claimants may require coun-
sci. He will not be prepared before the list oil
Julyto 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, large
amount of facts and proofs connected with the
services Of officers Of the Revolution, and hav-
inc complete list of all those Continental OH
GERS who were promised haI-pay 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-
guss?ITS0, will be prepared to prosecute snch
claims. If the bill reported TO pay such claims,
hitherto favorably acted upon in both Houses of
CONGRESS, ut different times, shall become law;
and or his 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 I'M
adjusted. and also to any and all otherciasses of
demands upon the Government, which may be
OF sufnGent maSultuIOtO uuOfu feslSOlisie
compensation. $780,. z-s-s,.s-.
PROMPT attention viii 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
erits. giving them such information as they NAV
require before engaging his services, and which
Circulars wiz save much time and labor in cor
respondence. They viii be sent to all who may
desire them.
He will also be prepared TO furnish to those
who NAV require them land for reasonable
conversation full and complete lists Of the or
yfeers Of the Continental .irHy whose cases are
embraced in the bills which have been pending
in Congress for the last two or three wears, 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 al the
descendants of Revolutionary Officers the means
of ascertaining ehstIer or not the names of their
ancestors are found upon the authentic rolls of
the Army, among those embraced in the bills
referred 10, the undersigned win furnish for pub
LEGATION, to all publishers of newspapers who will
give this advertisement three insertions in their
papers respectively land send u copy thereof to
him fuH lists Of The officers aforesaid or ths DTs
teen original Suites The publication Df rhese
isis VIII Tt'tn0Ftffft ftiff
60 the proposed bin which has Beea iaised 5v
some members of Congress, t0-wit: that these
claims were kROtcR oHiY 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-hGl, 0rany other
norton of their claims to their attorneys, the
Government has no right to complain. II mem
hers Of Congress, instead of Illuminating their
wrath against sgents, would procure the pubIica-
zion of the lists of claims embraced in every
law they enact. ESQ far as the records of the gov
ernment furnish the names of parties entitled y
tbey would render a far more valuable service
10 their constituents, than by opposinq law to
nav inst claims on the pretext that agents will
receive lara. fees for their services.
n il 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
eo,n,pissisps. whether high or low. The nnblica-
tion of tho lists in the newsnaners- isI in his
Judgment, simple act of Justice to Claimants
an SHG comS o Of By ohers Wbe a he 5
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