White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1857-10-29
LAW AND AGENCY.

A FTER the month of June, the undersigned
IL will give his attention to business general
" in the Court Of Claims, and in the other CoHrtI
held in the District Of Columbia-also, 10 mat
tiers pending in Con9ress and in the several De
parfmSnfs, in which claimants may require coun-
sci. He will not be prepared Tbefore the LIST Of
July 70 enter into correspondence on such bust
ness, as his time will be wholly engrossed until
July in closing up his affairs connected with the
Amerieaa Organ. -F
The undersigned, having obtained, during the
twenty odd years which he devoted mainly TO
Revolutionary Claims, at Washington, 4 large
amount of facts and proofs connecred with the
services of officers Of the Revolution, and hav-
ing a complete list of all those Continental Or
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 2dfh Au-
gust, 1850, will be prepared to prosecute such
claims, il the bill 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 Governments, which may be
of sufficient magnitude to afford a reasonable
compensation.
Prompt attention will be given to the coIIec-
ton of individual debts, and to all professional
business in the Courts of the District. y,-st
The undersigned will be prepared By the LIST
of July, to furnish Circulars to all Correspond
ents, giving them such information as they 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 q 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 Offers the means
of ascertaining lcAeker or Rst the names of their
ancestors are found upon the authentic rolls of
the Army, among those embraced in the bills
referred 70, the undersigned will furnish for pub
LEGATION, 10 all publishers Of newspapers who viii
give this advertisement three insertions in their
papers respectively (and send a copy thereof to
HIM full lists Of The officers aforesaid for The tkir
teen original States. The publication of these
70 the proposed bill which has been raised by
some members of Congress, to-wit: that these
claims were kR0soR 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 one-hGlE or any other
portion of their claims TO their attorneys, the
government has no right to complain. If mem
bers of Congress, instead of Illuminating their
wrath against SCENTS, would procure the publica-
ton of the lists of claims embraced in every
law they enact, $50 far as the recordsOf the gov
eminent 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 10 interfere, in any manner, with men,
bers of Congress, in the discharge of their du-
ties, nor with agents in the recovery of their
commissions, whether high or low. The publica-
ton of the lists in the newspapers, is, in bis
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 recovery of the claims
of OfeeTS of the Continental Army, whose
names are en- the lists referred TO, his commits
sions will uniformly be frep per cent. on the amount
His commissions in other cases will
be matter of special contract.
To save all unnecessary 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 suspendel" BY the Pension Of
fee, without the prepayment of a fee. The ca
ses of widows, under the act of Sd of February,
1883, who are entitled to arrears from 1913, will