character is not necessary, and all vouchers executed in a foreign country before a United States Consul, or having his certificate of the official character of a foreign magistrate, are sufficient. Each pensioner, or his attorney, must present himself at the agency to receive the money and sign the usual receipts. Pension agents are authorized to administer oaths for payment of pensions only, and to charge the same fees allowed to officers of the State therefor.

When a pension is terminated by death, marriage, expiration, or re-enlistment, the arrears due are payable on demand, and when a male pensioner dies, the arrears due are payable to the widow only when she is alive. If a pension remains unclaimed for fourteen months, it will not be paid at any agency. Application must be made, if an army pension, to the Third Auditor of the United States Treasury, and, if a navy pension, to the Fourth Auditor, with the usual deposition and proof of identity. No power of attorney is necessary, as the draft for payment is always made payable to the order of the pensioner.

Under the provisions of the acts of 2d March, 1829, and 29th June, 1840, in case of the death of any pensioner, the arrears of pension due to him at the time of his death must be paid

I. "To the widow of the deceased pensioner, or to her attorney," proving herself to be such before a court of record.

II. If there be no widow, then to the executor or administrator on the estate of such pensioner, for the sole and exclusive benefit of the children, to be by him distributed among them in equal shares; and the law of 1840 declares that the arrears of pension

"shall not be considered a part of the assets of said estate, nor liable to be applied to the payment of the debts of said estate in any case whatever."

III. In case of the death of any pensioner who is a widow, leaving children, the amount of pension due at the time of her death must be paid to the executor or administrator for the benefit of her children, as directed in the foregoing parágraph.

IV. In case of the death of any pensioner, whether male or female, leaving children, the amount of pension may be paid to any one or each of them, as they may prefer, without the intervention of an administrator. If one of the children is selected to receive the amount due, he or she must produce a power of attorney from the others for that purpose, duly authenticated. The oath of identity for the widow or child of a deceased pensioner must be according to form marked F; and when they appoint an attorney, the power of attorney must be according to form marked G.

V. If there be no widow, child, or children, then the amount due such pensioner at the time of his death must be paid to the legal representatives of the decedent.

VI. When an executor or administrator shall apply for the pension due to a deceased person, he must deposit with you a certificate of the clerk of the court, judge of probate, register of wills, ordinary or surrogate, (as the case may be,) stating that he is duly authorized to act in that capacity on the estate of the deceased pensioner, and, if a male, that it has been proved to his satisfaction that there is no widow of the said pensioner living.

In all cases of payments being made of moneys due a deceased pensioner, the original pension certificate must be surrendered, as evidence of the identity of the person to whom the pension claimed was due, or other substantial evidence of such identity must be produced in case such certificate cannot be obtained for surrendry, and that due search and inquiry have been made for said certificate, and that it cannot be found. The date of said pensioner's death must be proved before a court of record.

A certificate of the facts proved must be obtained from the clerk of the court. It is not necessary for the clerk to give the evidence in detail, but only to state the facts that have been proved, and certify under his seal of office that the testimony adduced was satisfactory to the court, according to form marked O; and in case a pension certificate is illegally withheld from a pensioner, he (or she, as the case may be) must produce evidence of identity and the facts, agreeably to form marked S.

When a pensioner is placed under guardianship, the guardian applying for a pension must, in addition to the evidence of the pensioner's identity, deposit with you a certificate, from the proper authority, that he is, at that time, acting in that capacity, and also satisfactory evidence that his ward was living at the date the pension claimed became due. The identity of the pensioner, in such case, must be established under the form herewith marked T, and by the oath also of two witnesses, to accompany the guardian's affidavit, according to form, which see attached to form T.

SPECIAL NOTICE.

When a pensioner or other person sends for any of the following blank forms, the act under which the pension was granted should be stated, and if possible the date of the certificate given, so that the particular blank needed can be sent:

D.-INVALID.

INSTRUCTIONS. All vouchers for the payment of a pension must be executed on or after the date to which the payment is claimed.

The deposition and power of attorney must be signed by the pensioner. Every erasure, interlineation, or alteration, must be noted in due form by the magistrate. Whenever an attorney is employed to receive a pension, the execution of the power must be in the presence of at least one witness, other than the magistrate before whom it is acknowledged; and if not presented at the agency within three months from its date, a new one will be required.

When the pensioner makes his mark, such signature must be made in the presence of one witness, other than the justice or notary who acts officially

in the case.

The magistrate must require the pensioner to show his or her pension certificate, and compare it with the copy made herein, before certifying.

Each pensioner, or his attorney, must go to the agency to receive the money, and sign the receipts for it.

If a pension has remained unpaid and unclaimed for fourteen months, it will not be paid at any agency. Application must be made to the Third Auditor of the United States Treasury, with the usual deposition of the pensioner and proof of identity. No power of attorney is necessary, as the draft of payment is always made payable to the order of the pensioner.

Pension agents are authorized to administer oaths on papers for payment of pensions only, and to charge the same fees as are allowed to officers of the State by the laws thereof.

due form of law, that he is the identical person named in an original certificate in his possession, of which I certify the following is a true copy:

Department

Invalid Pension.

That he now resides in

and has resided there for the

space of

in

years past; and that previous thereto he resided and that he has not been employed, or paid, in the army, navy, or marine service of the United States from the day of 18-, to the present time, nor since the date of his last pension certificate.

Power of Attorney.-[A-No. 1.]

Know all men by these presents, that I,

of

pensioner of the United States, do hereby constitute and appoint my true and lawful attorney, for me, and in my name, to receive from the agent of the United States for paying pensions in -, my pension from the

State of

day of

18-, to the

day of

18-.

and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be his act and deed.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand the day and year last above mentioned.