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MAf ZStn, ISi[. SlR:-The great and unexpected increase of business in this office, renders it entirely out of our power To answer particularly, and with as much premplitude as we could de- sire, the numerous communications address ed to this office; and although we cannot anticipate all the inquiries li,at may arise under ,ke recent acts of Cnngtcss granting land, scrip, and pensions to certain persons who have seryed, or rlay serve, in the war with Mexico. and eaa therefore frame no circular that can supersede ihe necessity of correspondence with agents. soldiers, and others, who sends claims to the Department. vet we have deemed il advisable Ia issue lhls circular, to prevent unnecessary inquiries in many cases, and to satisfy the numerous claimants who send papers here, that we are doing all that we can 10 expedite lheIr busl- ness.

 All claims are taken up in the or,!er in which they are received here. Reports, in writing. are made 10 the persons who trans mt or present the papers. But as claimants are often uneasy ii their claims are moi i,n- medIalelv attended 10. il yery frequently hap peas that. in a short time after papers art sent to the Department, lelers afe sent to urge immediate attention. This coarse, SO far from expediting and investigation, retards ii, because it increases the labor of those who are employed here. and. in some instan. ces, occasions mistakes, and consequently dissatisfaction to the parties concerned. IL IS, therefore, respectfully requested that eve " applicant will wait reasonable time be- fore making application to know what has been done Tn relation io his claim. But should any reaseB exist for supposiBg tha, unnecessary delay has taken place, or that the papers have been lost or destroyed, and uTe claimant, CT Ihe attorney employed. should deem il proper to ask Information, this letter vt!l be srHt, with brief answer written on the margin.

 When the regulations of the 4lh of March. lSi7, was first published, il was supposed iha, the surgeons certificates upon which soldiers were discharged would be easily procured. u has been discovered, however, that the soldiers did not in some cases retain them. and that duplicates were not transmit ted. us the Army Regulations direct, tu the Adjuiant Generals Office. As nothing was said in the regulations cencerniug such cer- iliica;es, for the information of claimants uu- der the Stii section of the act of February II. 1S47. that if in every instance in which a volunteer soldier was discharge on sur geon's certificate, iha, paper mus, be sent to the Pension Office with ,he claimants aifi- tiavit, unless Il has been otherwise disposed of. in that ease satisfactory evidence must be exhibited as the nature and origin of the claimants disability. The testimony of a officer should he obtained if