The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-02
Questions Answered.

X. ID. NJ, Cornth.-Afiidavits once filed in
claim for pension pending in the pension
Office cannot he recalled.
G.. NJ, Worcester. examining board
of surgeons at Montpelier meet every
Wednesday. The number of applicants for
pension examined at each meeting is some
ten or twelve.
G. c., Mortified Nothing is being done
in pension cases appealed to the secretary
of the interior at present. The delay, we
suppose, is due to vacancy in the office of
an attorney to represent the pension office
in such cases.
j. f. H., Berlin.-The pensioner is re-
CURED to exhibit his pension certificate to
the magistrate before whom he signs his
voucher at every quarterly payment The
magistrate is required to certify that the GER
tihcate was shown him and if he certifes
that it was exhibited when it was not he is
liable to punishment by fine or imprison-
ment
w. G. N, Barre.-At the meeting of the
trustees of the Soldiers Home, to be held at
Burlington January Goth, they will con-
slider any proposition that the citizens of
Barre may wish to make in regard to having
the Soldiers Home located there. Barre
and Waterbury have been talked of in con-
nection with the location of the Soldiers
Home more than any other locality.
c. II. j., Barton Landing. cor
IL,
through his head was pensioned at $50 a
month; that two years ago, by showing that
his disability was as great as that caused by
the loss of an arm below the elbow, he had his
pension increased to S24 month He adds
Considering his rank and the injury sus
tanned, it is the smallest pension in this re-
gion. Is there any chance to get it raised?''
Answer-A captains rank would not affect
the rate of pension he would receive after it
had been raised above $50 month. 1t
would then depend wholly upon the extent
of his disability. If his disability is as great
as that caused by the loss of an arm above
the elbow and he is wholly incapacitated for
manual labor, he would be entitled to have
his pension increased to $50 a month.
G. S., Chelsea.-The circular of firm of
Washington claim agents which you send
us is only one of many that has been shown
us in the last two weeks. We know the at
torneys and would not advise you to place
any claim in their hands We do not know
to what they refer in saying, 1--WE have
reason to believe that there is due you from
the government, on account of your de-
ceased husband, sum of money mot in the
nature of pension) amounting to four and
five hundred dollars" They may be antici-
pating some action by congress, or by the
departments of the government, giving
bounties to soldiers widows. This is not
the first time this firm has tried to &C. rope in u
claims before the passage of a law creating
the claim which anticipated law was never
enacted. If they were dealing fairly with
you they would be frank enough to inform
you of the nature of your claim. Then,
again, they ask you to execute a contract to
pay them twenty-five PER cent of the
amount collected This of itself should be
a sufficient warning against employing
them. The amount of postage they ask you
to send them, if sent by every pensioned
widow, would make them rich. 1t is barely
possible that all they are fishing for is the
postage.