White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1857-09-03
LAW AND AGENCY.

A FTER the month Of June, the undersigned
IA win give his attention 70 business general
II Ia the Court Of Cems, and in the other Courts
held in the District of Columbia-also, to mat
ters pending in Con9ress and in the several De-
parfmenfs, in which claimants may require coun-
sci. He win not DO prepared before the lst oil
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 10
Revolutionary Claims, at Washington, large
amount Of facts and proofs connected with the
services Of officers of the Revolution, and hav-
ing eOmpIete 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 "seyen
years half paw" under the resolve of 24th Au-
gust, 1880, viii be prepared to prosecute such
claims, if 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 hGLPGy Claims, which remain IN
adjusted and also to any and all other classes of
demands upon the Government, which may be
of sufficient magnitude to afford a reasonable
compensation.
Prompt attention win 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 he lst
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 NAV
desire them.
He will also be prepared to furnish to those
who may require them land for reasonable
compensation full and complete lists of the Of
feeTs of the Continental Army whose cases are
embraced in the bills which have been pcnling
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 ascertaiuing rhetAeT Or RSt 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 (snd send copy thereof to
him) full lists Of the officers aforesaid for The thir-
teen original States. The publication of these
lists will efectually remove one main objection !
to the proposed bill which has been raised by !
some members of Congress, to-wit: that these |
claims were kRoscR 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 onehal, or any other
portion of their claims to their attorneys; the |
haa iuhk To- orrr,lain If
bers of Congress, instead Of Eliminating their /
wrath against SCENTS, would procure the publica-
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 /
10 their constituents, than by opposing a law to /
pay Just claims on hepretexs 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
Ders of Congress, in the discharge of their d.
hes, nor with agents in the recovery Of their
commissions, whether high or low. The publica-
ton of the lists in the newspapers, is, in his
Judgment, a simple act of Justice to claimants
aud it is but Just to himself and cannot possibly
be complained of by others when he states, that /
Tor the prosecution and recovery of the claims
IF Offers Of the Continental Amy whose
names are on the lists referred to, his commits
lions will uniformly be nee per cent. on the amount
His commissions in other cases will
De 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 " suspended" by the Pension Of
ice, without the prepayment Of fee. The ca
ies of widows, under the act of Sd Of February,
1853, who are entitled to arrears from ls4S, will
De prosecuted in the Court of Claims for q com
mission of ten per cent on the arrears.
Letters making inquiries about claims Of va
ious descriptions, cannot be answered, unless a
ZEE accompanies the application. The time re-
Iuired to examine cases, and the necessary ex-
,ense Of correspondence, in time, hostages, &C.,
Sc., forbid such examinations, without some CON-
)ensatiOn therefor.
Persons who may wish to know on what terms
generally, the undersigned will investigate and
prosecute claims, may learn, by addressing him
/ letter enclosing postage stamp and asking
or his " Circular TO eoTTespoRdeRts.'
VESPASIAN ELLIS,
aug s, 1857. Washington City, D. C.