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Mar Department,
ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Washington, January 12, 1875.
Major a K. arnold 6th Davy,
Disbursing New Breans Officer La.
major:
The Commissioner of Pensions has requested, with a vieu
to the protection of the public interests in the matter of Pensions to
Colored Soldiers and their heirs, that a report be made in all cases
where payment of bounty or arrears of pay is refused by the
Disbursing Officers of this Office, the same to be used in connection
with the adjustment of claims pending in his Office, and in those
already allowed.
In order to a compliance with said request, you will hereafter
submit a report direct to the Commissioner of Pensions in all such
cases, giving name of the soldier, and of the payee, (when other than
the soldier,) the company and regiment in which the soldier served,
and a brief summary of the reasons for withholding payment.
Upon the removal of the causes upon which the withholding of
payment was based, the Commissioner of Pensions is to be likewise
informed of such fact.
Very respectfully,
Adjutant General.
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