Regulations ofthe Pension Office.

Pension office,
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GsPteM6sF 22a lS45. SIR:--ln answer to your letter of the l7th uIt. to the Secretary of War, have to state that the enclosed printed sheets, will show tine soldiers of the present Mexican war, how to proceed in preparing their claims to boun- ty land or script, under the 9Gh section of the act of Feb. II, lS47. 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.

 A volunteer who was wounded or otherwise disabled, while in the line of his duty as n soldier, IS entitled to an invalid pension. in proportion 10 the degree of his disability; and in case of the death of such soldiers from wounds received, or from disease contracted, while in the service, the widow, or children, would be entitled to half pay pension for five years. Enclosed also are printed ia- structlons for the guardian of inEalids, or of widows and children, in presenting claims to pensions. am very respectfully,

 your ob't servant,

 J. L. EDWARDS. To THE HoS R. W. JOHNSON.