The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-24
Answers to Correspondents.

j. e. c., Montpelier L. M.
Hutchinson, formerly of the Eighth
Regiment, Vermont Volunteers, has
removed from Worcester to Loyalton,
Dakota.
L. M. H., Loyalton, Dakota.-The
history of the Eighth Regiment, Yer
mont Volunteers, will be published in
few weeks. 1t will make volume of
about five hundred pages, illustrated
with maps and portraits, and will be
sent by mail to purchasers for 1920.
r. F. g., East Corinth.-If your dis
charge certificate has been filed in your
claim for a pension in the pension
office, the commissioner ofpensions will
return it to you on your request, but
will not return it to your attorney. In
writing for it you should give the COM
pany and regiment in which you served
and the number of your pension certifi-
cate.
FREE Press, Burlington.-The num-
Der of ex-soldiers supported by towns
in Vermont, as ascertained when the
Soldiers Home was incorporated by
the legislature, was seventy-three. Let
tiers of inquiry were sent to every town
in the state at that time asking for the
number of veterans each town was then
supporting. The trustees of the Sol
diers' Home are now canvassing the
state for information on this subject.
Mrs. G. G., Bolton.-We are unable
to inform you whether the Soldiers
Home, when opened, would take your
insane husband from the asylum at
Brattleboro and care for him at the
Home. This is matter for the trus-
tees of the Soldiers Home to decide, as
there are quite a number of insane SOL
diers in the state to be cared for. Some
of the trustees are in favor of having a
department in the Soldiers Home de-
voted to the care of the insane.
SOLDIER, Fairlee.-This correspond
ent writes that " there is soldier who
is drawing a pension for a disability
contracted in the service who is de-
pendent on son to do the hard work
on small farm" He wishes to know
if, by showing his dependence on his
son, it would help him to an increase
of his pension. Answer-No. The
pension of soldier is rated according
to the extent of his own disability for
performing manual labor resulting from
wounds or disease contracted in the
United States service.
E. w. R., Tunbridge.-There is an
opportunity for fraud in settling claims
for bounty in the second auditors Office
like the one you mention by adding to
receipt for pay sum for bounty and
forwarding to the soldier only the pay,
while dishonest official retains the
bounty and the soldiers receipt shows
that he has received both the pay and
the bounty. 1t has always, been the
practice of the second auditof to require
all applicants for allowances from his
Office to execute duplicate receipts in
blank in advance of any payments.
Sometimes the receipts are taken and
no payment made, the applicant being
informed that his claim has been dis
allowed.
P. D., North Haverhill, N. H.-This
correspondent writes that sickness has
taken every dollar from him; that his
claim for a pension is long delayed, and
adds: 81 must 60 to the poor-house here
ifthey do not send me to Vermont. Please
give my name as one of the number to &C
to the Soldiers Home, if ever they get il
SOFAS to keep the poor, needy soldiers. II
/ get my pension 1 shall not trouble
the Soldiers Home, and so would be
of no expense to the state of Vermont
Please do all you can for poor, sickly
soldier" If you are unable to furnish
the testimony required by the pension
Office to complete your claim, you should
make your own affidavit, stating that
you have furnished the best evidence
you can, and request that your claim be
adjudicated on the evidence on file. II
your case is rejected you can then take
an appeal to the secretary of the int
rior, or apply to congress for special
act giving you pension. 1t will be fol
your interest to furnish all the testimony
you can before submitting your claim
for adjudication. If you succeed ON a
case well proved the rate of pension is
likely to be of higher one than in {
weak case. We are in hopes that Yer
mont will have home for homeless
soldiers before another winter so at
tractive that even if you succeed in OBJ
tanning pension you will still desire tt
be its inmate.