TaEAsuRY DEPARTMENT.
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WAY rs, 1875.


The " Act for the relief of certain surviving Off
GERS and Soldiers of the Revolution approved on
the 18th day of May, 1928, (of which the iorego-
ing is copy,1 will be carried into effect under the
following regulations:


Each Officer claiming under the act. will trans
nit to the Secretary OF the Treasury declaration,
according to the form hereunto annexed. marked
A. and each non commissioned Otter, Musician,
and Private, according to the form mail ked Is. ac-
companed by the oath OF two respectable Witnesses
as to his identity, which oath is to he taken before
Justice Of the Peace. or other Magistrate, duly
empowered to administer oaths in the State or
Territory in which he resides, and authenticated
under the seal of the Court of the County in which
the oath was administered, as shown in the sld
forms.


Each Officer will also transmit his commission,
If in existence and attanable, and each non-com-
missoned Officer, Musician, and Private, his dis
charge; which documents, after being registered,
will be returned. If the commission or discharge
has been lost or destroyed, he will transmit such
other evidence as he may possess or can obtain,
corroborative OF the statements set forth in his
declaration.


If the evidence transmitted, taken in connection
with that afforded by the public records at Wash
ington, be found satisfactory, the amount of two
years. full pay, at the rate to which the OHcer or
Soldier was entitled according to his rank IN the
line, at the close of the war; at the time Of his
reduction, (as the case may be,) but in no instance
exceeding the full-pay of a Captain Of the Cont
mental Line. will be transmitted to him, at the
place of his residence, after deducting therefrom
the amount of any pension whicl, he may have re-
ceved from the United States since the Sd day Of
March, 1896. He may, however, authorize any
other person to receive ii for him III which case,
he will execute power of attorney, according to
the annex ed orm, marked G, which must be ac
knowedgcd before a Justice Of the Peace, or other
Magistrate, and authenticated under the seai cf
the Court Of the County, in the same manner as is
already prescribed in regard 70 declarations But
no payment will be made to any such attorney,
until he has made oath. according to the annexed
form ID, that the pay which he is authorized to re-
ceive is intended to cnure wholly TO the personal
benefit sf the Officer Soldier whnse attorney he is.
1t is requested that all letters TO the Secretary
Of the Treasury, on the subjects. may be endorsed
on the cever, {. Revolutionary Ctaims.,'


RICHARD RUSH.