TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
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The " Act for the relief Of certain surviving OIL
GERS and Soldiers of TIE Revolution" approved on
the l5th day of May, 1928, (ot which the iurego-
ing is a copy,) 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 tie form hereunto annexed. marked
A, and each non commissioned OGieer, .nasictdn,
and Priudte, according to the form marked Is, ac-
companicd by the oath OF two respectable witnesses,
as to his identity which oath is to be taken before
a Justice Of the Peace. 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 said
torms.


Each Officer will also transmit his commission,
if in existence and attainabe, and each non-com
missioned 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 obtain,
corroborallve OF the statements set forth in his
declaration.


IT the evidence transmitted, taken in c0nnexlon
with that afforded By the public records at Wash
lngton, be found satisfactory. the amount ct two
years. full pay, at the rate to which the 0iicer or
Soldier was entitled, according to his rank III the
line, at the close of the war, at the time of his
reducton las the case may be y but in no instance
exceeding the tull-pay of a Captain Of the Cont
mental Line. will be transmitted to him, at the
place OF htA residence, efter deluctng therefrom
the amcunt Of any pension which hs may have re-
ceiyed from the United States since the Sd day Of
March, 1896 lie may, however, authorize any
other person to receive il for him; in winch case,
he will execute power Of attorney, according to
the annex ed or:n, marked {, which must be ac-
knowledged 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 i'll regard to 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-
ceve is intended to cnure wholly TO the personal
benefit Of the Officer or Soldier whose attorney he IS.
! II Is requested that all letters to the Secretary
OF the Treasury, on the subjects, may be endorsed
on the cover, & Revolutionary CIaims''


RICHARD RUSH.