Pension OnIce,
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 SiR:-The great and unexpected increase of business in this office, renders it entirely out of our power to answer particularly, and with as much promptitude as we could de- sire, the numerous communications address ed 10 this office; and although we cannot anticipate all the inquiries tia, may arise under the recent acts of Congress granting land, scrip, and pensions to certain persons who have served, or may serve, in the war with Mexico, and can therefore frame no circular that can supersede the necessity of correspondence with agents. soldiers, and others, who sends claims 10 the Department, yet we have deemed it advisable to issue thls circular, to prevent unnecessary inquiries in many cases, and to satisfy the numerous claimants who send papers here, iha, we are doing all that we can to expedite their busi- ness.

 All claims are taken up in the order in which they are received here. Reports, in writing, are made to the persons who traus- init or present the papers. But as claimants are often uneasy if their claims arc not im- mediately attended to. it very frequently hap pens that, ii short lime after papers are sent to the Department, letters are sent 10 urge immediate attention. This course, so far from expediting and investigation, retards Il, because 1t increases the labor of those who are employed here, and, tn some instan-- ces, occasions mistakes, and consequently dissatisfaction to the parties concerned. IL IF, therefore, respectfully requested that eve f3 applicant will wait reasonable time be- fore making application to know what has been done in relation to his claim. But should any reason exist for supposing that unnecessary delay has taken place, or that the papers have been lost or destroyed, and the claimant, or the attorney employed, should deem II proper to ask information, this letter will be sent, with brief answer written on the margin.

 When the regulations of the 4th of March, lS47. was first published, il was supposed that the surgeons certificates upon which soldiers were discharged would be easily procured. lt has been discovered, however, that the soldiers did not in some cases retain them, and that duplicates were not iransmii- ted, as the Army Regulations direct, to the Adjutant Generals Office. As nothing was said in the regulations concerning such eer- hhcates, for ihe information of claimants un- ter the 9th section of the acl of February II, lS47, that if in every instance in which a volunteer soldier was discharge on sur geon's certificate, that paper must be sent 10 the Pension Office with the claimants affi- davit, unless ], has been otherwise disposed Of In that case satisfactory evidence must be exhibited as the nature and origin of the claimants disability. The testimony of a officer should be obtained if