Litchfield enquirer., 1879-02-27
ARREARS OF PENSIONS.

We clip the following text of the pension law, with the instructions for obtaining the same, from the Canaan News: -.,
 APPROVED JANUARY 25, 1879. An Act to provide that all pensions on account of death or wounds received, or disease con- tracted 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 discharge from the service of the United States: for the payment of arrears
 of pensions, and other purposes.
 BeI enacted 6y the Sen,Gte and House of Representatives cf the United States of America ia Congress assembled That all pensions which have been granted under the general laws regulating pensions, or may hereafter be granted, in consequence of death from cause which originated in the United States service during the continuance of the late war of the rebellion, or in consequence of wounds, inju- ries, or disease received or contracted in said service during said war of the rebellion, shall commence from the date of the death or dis charge from said service of the person on whose account the claim has been or shall hereafter be granted, or from the termination of the right of the party having prior title to such pension :-ProUided, The rate of pension for the intervening time for which arrears of pension are hereby granted shall be the same per month for which the pension was original ly granted.
 SEQ. 3. That the Commissioner of Pensions is hereby authorized and directed to adopt such rules and regulations for the payment of the arrears of pensions hereby granted as will be necessary to cause to be paid to such pension CTS, or, if the pensioners shall have died, to the person or persons entitled to the same, all such arrears of pension as the pensioner may be- or would have been, entitled to under this Act.
 SEo 3-That section forty seven hundred and seventeen of the Revised Statutes of the United States, which provides that ''no claim for pension not prosecuted toa successful issue within five years from the date of filing the same shall be admitted withoutrecord evidence from the War or Navy Department of the in- jury or the disease which resulted in the disa- bility or death of the person on whose account the claim is made :-PrOUided, That in any case in which the limitation prescribed by this section bars the further prosecution of the claim, the claimant may present, through the Pension Office, to the Adjutant-G General of the Army or the Surgeon General of the Navy, ,ev- idence that the disease or injury which result ed in the disability or 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 satisfactory by the officer to whom it may be submitted, he shall cause record of the fact SO proved to be made, and copy of the same to be transmit tad to the Commissioner of Pensions, and the bar to the prosecution of the claim shall there by be removed" be, and the same is hereby, repealed.
 Approved, January 25, 1879.
 E9-No claim for arrears under the provisions of the above Act due to pensiOner already upon the rolls, will be adjusted until Congress shall have appropriated the money for the pay | ment of such claim.
 Applications for such arrears may however be filed-but will receive no answer until the claim is justified.
 The above rules are necessary to prevent the work of the Office from becoming blookaded by unnecessary correspondence. J. A. BENTLEY, Commissioner of Pensions DEPARTMENT OF THE INFERIOR. PENSION OFFICE, WASHINGTON, D. O., Jan. 27, 1879. CIRCULAR LETTER.
 SIR: Persons who are entitled to arrears of pension under the Act granting Arrears, ap- proved January 25, 1879, and whose pensions were granted previous to that date, will not require the. assistance of claim agent in ob- taining the amount due them. All correspon- dence in relation to any claim for such arrears, will be with the person entitled, and no claim agent will be recognized in such claim.
 A letter addressed to the Commissioners of Pensions, signed by the person who was in re- ceipt of the pension at the date aforesaid, and of .sok,,n nAo will be the only application required-and up- on which the rights of all parties concerned will be adjusted.
 The Pensio7o Certificate should not be sent to the Pension Otfice-but it must be ex- hibited to the magistrate. -ga
 The letter should be in the following or equivalent form:
 "To the Commissioner of Pensions: I,........a pensioner under pens on certificate No..... hereby apply for the arrears due me, under the Act granting Arrears of Pension ap- proved January 25, 1879. My post-ofice ad- dress is-T here insert the name of the post of flee, and if the claimant resides in city, the name and number of the street and residence must also be given.
 Nome of Claimant.
 Taoo aottaaesses.
 STATE OF -, COUNTY OF, ss:
 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 exhib- tied to me his pension certificate, which is numbered............ Magistrates Signature.
 Very respectfully,
 J. A. BENTLEY, Commissioner of Pensions
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