The National tribune., 1895-02-14
OUR CORRESPONDENTS.

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. separate sheet OF paper give full name and ad.
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attention will be paid TO communications not ao
companied with name and address of writer. II Is
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only. Replies by mail will ordinarily be made
within week. aud II in this column within three
weeksl
HIS. r., Cincinnati, o., and several osk.rs.-If
you will carefully read the whole Of the article
in our issue Of tho 31st ult, on the subject of
bounty and travel pay, you will probably come
TO the conclusion that you are not entitled to
either allowance. As to travel pay, it was Gus
tomary to include an allowance for that in the
soldiers final statements; and while YOU in
common with many others. may have paid
your own fare home, it was probably with
money furnished you by the Government for
that express purpose. As to bounty, those who
enlisted after July %. 1861, aud who were dis
charged for disease prior to service of TWO
years. are not entitled to bounty. There was
no bounty law passed in 1901 and lapsing in
1893. and We did not so state. We printed q
circular misleading in its terms} in order to
make plain to our readers the errors in IT,
which fully set forth in our answer 1t
would appear that quite large number OF COM
rades had failed to read tho whole of the CUES
ton and answer. and considerable time will be
saved if sill of same be carefully and intelli-
gently perused and considered. We do not
prosecute claims of any nature. The Auditor
for the War Department. Washington, ID. c., is
the officer charged by law with the settlement
of the claims herein referred to.
S. G.. s., Coilbran. Coto.-1. How long after a
comrade is examined by a local board before
the Medical Reviewers at Washington pass upon
such report? 2. How does the rating corre-
spond? g. II the local board rates Mt $40 a
month, what would tho rating at Washington
be? and 8. AnstCer l. The matter
ought to DO considered within few weeks
9. The rating here Is determined from a con-
sderaton Of the description of the claimants
disabilities 3. Local boards are forbidden to
rate and arc not proper inquiries, as the
reputation or politics of any particular attor.
ney are not appropriate subjects for discussion
in this column.
W. Fl. B., Bear Lake. Pa.-Pleaso answer the
following question and oblige comrade. Is
property. real personal. exempt from taxa
ton. levy or sale. when purchased by the pen.
sion of a soldier3 Ansuer. We have repeatedly
stated in this column that this question is one
controlled wholly by law of the State in which
the property is situated: and, therefore. to
correctly answer such inquiries would necessi-
tate o thorough knowledge of the laws, and
decisions Hereunder. of all the States. We
cannot attempt to answer such q question. and
suggest that local lawyer 10 the proper per-
son to consult.
T. H. b., NeU Hdcef, C0nn.-A 5olcter OF the
civil war contracts disease In the line of his
duty in the service, which results in his death
after his return; he leaves widow and child
eight years of age; the widow remarries. and
no application for either has ever been filed.
Are either now entitled to pension, the child
having attained tho age of 20 years9 Answsr.
Upon due proof, the remarked widow is en-
titled to pension from date of soldiers death to
date of her rsmarriage; under present rulings
the child 10 not entitled, having failed to file
prior to attaining the age of 10
years.
J. H.. Alexandria, Cdaada.-My pension has
been suspended since July, 1893, because I am
not q citizen of the United States. | thought
by enlisting in the U. s. Army, serving therein
and being honorably discharged therefrom aud
afterwards living in the States, that became
a citizep OF the United States. What can | do?
Ansger. Nothing. so long as tho present law
stands, and SO long as you are non resident;
however, We hope that by the time you read |
this the obnoxious law will have been repealed, |
and the payment of your pension will have |
been resumed.
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