TaEAsURY DEpARTMENT,
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The Act for the relief of certain surviving 0il-
GERS and Soldiers of the Revolution" approved on
the 18th day of May, 1898, (of which the forego-
ing is copy,) will be carried into elect under the
following regulations:


Each Officer claiming under the act, will trane-
nit to the Secretary of the Treasury declaration.
according to the form hereunto annexed, marked
A, and each rcn- commissioned Officer, Musician,
and Private. according to the form marked y. ac-
companied by the oath of two respectable witnesses.
as to his identity which oath is to hc taken before
Justice of the Peace or other Magistrate. duly
empowered TO administer oat'ls in the State o.
Territory 10 which he resides, and authenticated
under the seal Of the Court of the County III which
the cath WAS administered, as shown III the said
forms.


Each Officer will also transmit his commission,
if IN existence and attainable, and each non-com-
mlssioned Officer, Musician, and Private, his dis
charge: which documents, after being registered,
will be returned. IL 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 connexinn
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 oiilcer or
Soldier was entitled, according to lis rank IN the





reduction, (as the case may be-, but in no instance
exceeding the ful-pay ola 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 which he may have re-
ceyed from the United States since the Cd day oil
March, 1926. He may, however, authorize any
other person 10 receive it for him in whlch case,
he will execute power Of attorney, according to
the annex ed or..i, marked G. which must be &C.
knowle before Justice OF the Peace, or other
Magistrate, and authenticated under the seal Of
the Court Of the County, in the same manner as is
already prescribed in regard to declarations. But
no payment viii be made to any such attorney.
nnti lie has made oath. according to tie annexed
form D, that the pay which be is authorized to re-
ceive is intended to cnure wholly to the personal
benefit of the Officer or Soldier whose attorney he IS


1t is requested that all letters to the Secretary
of the Treasury, on the subjects, may be endorsed
on the cover {: Revolutionary Claims"
/ RICHARD RUSH.