Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1870 — Interesting to Crippled Soldiers. [ARTICLE]

Interesting to Crippled Soldiers.

Adjutant General J, G. Greenawalt has sent out the following circulars which we publish for the benefit of pensioners and those who lost limbs in the service of the United States: ~ l ‘ Exhcutive Department of I nd. Adjutant General's Office. Indianapolis, July 30, 1870. Congress having provided by Acts approved June 17, June 30, and July 11, 1870, for the re-issue every five years of Artificial Limbs, or the value thereof in money, to officers, soldiers, seamen and marines, who have lost limbs in the service of-the United States, the following Instructions are published for the benefit of those interested: Upon application for limbs in kind, orders will tie given by the Surgeon General, upon any manufacturer selected. who shall first have filed a bond in the sum of Five Thousand Dollars, with two sureties, to furnish good and satisfactory liml*, without extra charge to the soldier, nnd make good al! defects of material or workmanship without additional charge, subject in all caves to the inspection of such persons ns the Surgeon General may designate. Transportation to and from the place of fitting the limb will also lie furnished upon a written request addressed to the Surgeon General. Applications for commutation will be certified by the Surgeon General, and transmitted to the Commissioner of Pensions for payment, through the local pension agents. Application can be made and sent to tins office. The certificate of Pension Agent will then be obtained, and the claim forwarded to the proper department at Washington, D. C.

Executive Department of Ind. Adjutant General's Office. Indianapolis. August Ist, 1870. | Ry an Aet of Congress, approved j July 8, 1870, all Pensioner)} are here- I after to be paid quarterly, in each ' year, on the 4th of March, June, September and December. The U. S. Pension Agent is required to furnish a voucher FREE OF EXPENSE TO THE PENSIONER, and I all payments of pension are required I “to be made thereon. One will be for- I warded to' every Pensioner iminedi-I ately before the 4111 day ot March, , June, September and December, of j each year. On or after the 4th day of i the months above mentioned, the i Pensioner, with his pension certifi- ' cate, will, with two witnesses go be- j fore a magistrate and sign and execute i the oaths, and sign the receipts. The j executed voucher will then be re- 1 turned by mail to the U. 8. Pension ; Agent, who, upon its receipt, will 1 forward to the sworn address of the Pensioner given within, a check for the full amount of pension due. Pensioners changing their address since date of last payment, should notify the U. 8. Pension Agent. The voucher when signed, witnessed and acknowledged, should be returned to the U. 8. Pension Agent, who is not allowed to recognize any power of attorney. The check in payment must be sent direct to the Pensioner, unless application be made in person, “in which case tiie check shall be given direct to the hand of tho party entitled thereto.” Under the laws of the State of Indiana.Tio cne'Huthorized to administer oaths is allowed to charge over fifteen cents for taking the deposition in tiie above described pension voucher. As the :igent is not allowed a fee out of the pension, every Pensioner can draw the quarterly payments at a cost to them of but fifteen cents, and the

postage.

J. G. GREENAWALT,

Adjutant General Ind.