Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-02-13
IMPORTANT TO PENSIONERS.
Circular Letter from the Commissioner
of Pensions---TheC Certificate and How
It Should be Filed.

or I6O61O08'.s1n0 OoICAAO0t0 0AN ~"
it Should be Filed.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIoR,)
PENSION OFFICE,
WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. ~, 1872
"CIRCULAR LETTER.
SIR:-Persons who are entitled to arrears
of pensions, under the act granting arrears,
approved January Is, 1879, and whose pen
sions were granted prev GUS to that date,
will not require the assistance OF claim
agent in obtaining the amount due them.
All correspondence in relation to any CLARA
entitled, and no claim agent will be rec0g.
nized in such claim.
A letter addressed to the Commissioner
of Pensions, signed by the person who was
in receipt OF the pension at the date aiore.
said, aud two witnesses, in the presence of
a magistrate, will be the only application
required-and upon which the rights Of all
parties concerned will be adjusted.
re- The Pension Certificate should be sent
the magistrate-k.M
The letter should be in the folio wing or
equivalent form:
To the Commissioners Of Passions:
/ --, pensioner under pension
certificate No. -, hereby apply for the
arrears due me, under the act granting ar.
rears of pensions, approved January %,
1879. Ny postofice address is (here insert
the name Of the postotfice, and if the claim
ant resides in city, the name and mum.
Der of the street and residence must also be
piven.) Nume Of Claimant.
7vo qvimesses.
STATE OF -, COUNTY. Or, S..
Signed in my presence. by ---. who
is known to me to be the person he describes
himself to be, and at the same time he ex.
hibited to me his pension certificate, which
is numbered. Magistrates Signature.
Very respectfully, J. A. BENTLEY,
Commissioners of Pensions.
ARREARS OF PENSION B1LL-APPROvED
JANUARY Is, 1879.
AN act to provide that all pensions on &C.
count of death or wounds received or
disease contracted in the service Of the
! United States during the late war of the
rebellion, which have been granted or
which shall hereafter be granted, shall
| commence from the date of death or dis
| charge from the service of the United
States for the payment OF arrears OF pen
sions and other purposes.
Be it enacted, etc., That all pensions which
have been granted under the general law
regulating pensions, or may hereafter be
granted in consequence of death from a
cause which originated in the United States
service during the continuance of the late
war of the rebellion, or in consequence OF
wounds, in uries or disease received or con-
tracted in said service during said war,
shall commence from the date of discharge
from said service of the person on whose
account claim has been or hereafter shall
be granted, or from the termination OF the
right of the party having prior title to
such pension, provided the rate of pension
for the intervening time for which arrears
of pension are hereby granted shall be the
same per month for which pension was
originally granted.
Section g. That the commissioner of pen.
sions is hereby authorized and directed to
adopt such rules and regulations for the
payment of arrears of pensions hereby
granted as will be necessary to cause to be
paid to such pensioners, or if the pensioners
entitled to the same, all such arrears OF
pension as the pensioner may be or would
have been entitled to under this act.
Section 3. That section 4,717 of the re-
vised statutes, which provides that no claim
for pension not prosecuted to successful
issue within FIVE years from the date OF
fling the same shall be admitted without
recorded evidence from the war or navy de-
partment of injury or disease which resulted
in the inability or death of the person on
whose account the claim is made; ,r0vided
that in any case in which the limitation pre-
q scribed by this section bars further prosecu
ton of the claim, the claimant may present
through the pension Office to the adjutan1
general Of the army or surgeon general Of
the navy, evidence that the disease or in
Jury which resulted in the disability OF
death of the person on whose account the
claim is made originated in the service and
in the line of duty; and if such evidence
/ is deemed satisf ctory by the officer to whom
it may be submitted, he shall cause a recorc
of the fact so proved to be made and copy
of the same transmitted to the commissions
of pensions, and the bar to the prosecution
of the claim shall thereby be removed anC
the same is hereby repealed.
Section 4. No claim agent or other per
son shall be entitled to receive any compen
sation for services in making application
for arrears of pension.
so far as they may conflict with the provis
ions Of this act, be and the same are hereby
repealed.
rs No claim for arrears under the pro
visions of the above act, due to e pensionel
upon the rolls, will be adjusted until con
gress shall have appropriated the money TO-
the payment Of such claim.
Applications for such arrears may, how
ever, be filed-but will receive no answer
until the claim is adjusted.
The above rules are necessary to proven
the work of the Office from becoming block
AIDED by unnecessary correspondence.
J. A. BENTLEY,
Commissioner of Pensions.