Regulations ofthe Pension Office.

Pension office,
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 SuR:-ln answer to your letter of the l7th ult. to the Secretary of War, have to state that the enclosed printed sheets, will show :he sold;es's cf the present Mexican wss, kc= to proceed in preparing their claims to boun- ty land or script, under the 9th section of the ac. of Feb. II, 1847. These papers will also enable the widow and children, father or mother, as the case may be, to furnish the requisite proof. The papers when prepared, should be forwarded to this office. v A volunteer who was wounded or otherwise disabled, while in the line 0f hts duty as q soldier, is entitled to an invalid pension, in proportion to the degree of his disability; and in case of the death of such soldiev's from wounds received, or from disease contracted, while in the service, the widow, or children, would be entitled to a half pay pension fos five years. Enclosed also are printed in- s,ructions for the guardian of invalids. or oI widows and children, in presenting claims to pensions. am very respectfully,

 your ob't servant, J. L. EDWARDS. To THE HoN R. W. JOHNSON.