A COMPILATION OF PENSION, PAY AND BOUNTY LAWS: TOGETHER WITH FULL INSTRUCTIONS, FORMS AND DECISIONS, RELATIVE TO PRESENTING GOVERNMENT CLAIMS. LAWS, By SNYDER, COOK & Co. ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. CHICAGO: PUBLISHED 'BY THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, 51 CLARK STREET. 1862. PENSION and BOUNTY BLANKS of every description kept constantly on hand at TRIBUNE Office. PUTNAM'S MAMMOTH EASTERN BAKER - CHICAGO CLOTHING EMPORIUM LEADER OF FASHIONS & REGULATOR OF PRICES! The Crowds who daily make their purchase at this Establishment, is a sure evidence that we are selling the Best Made Fashionable Garments TWENTY PER CENT. LESS Than can be Bought elsewhere in the city. AN EXAMINATION OF OUR STOCK AND PRICES WILL CONVINCE YOU OF THE FACT. Everybody goes to Putnam's, the Leading Institution of Chicago, 116 & 118 RANDOLPH STREET. OF PENSION, PAY AND BOUNTY LAWS: TOGETHER WITH FULL INSTRUCTIONS, FORMS AND DECISIONS, RELATIVE TO LAWS, By SNYDER, COOK & Co. ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. CHICAGO: PUBLISHED BY THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, 51 CLARK STREET. 1862. PUBLISHERS' NOTICE. The following compilation of Laws, together with the Forms, Instructions, and Decisions, is intended as a cheap, convenient and practical guide in the prosecution of claims against the Government arising out of the present war. It comprises all the laws now in force relating to Pensions, Pay of the Army, and Bounty Money, official decisions and opinions thereon, and instructions as to the proper form in which claims should be presented. It also contains a full and complete set of plain and simple Forms, with numerous explanatory notes for filling them up. These Forms are constantly used with success by the compilers of this work, and have been approved by the Departments; and many of them are to be found in no other work. Many new rules and regulations have been adopted by the Government in regard to this kind of claims, which are here, for the first time, collected and published. The Laws have been compiled by Messrs. Snyder, Cook & Co., Attorneys, and the Appendix, including the Instructions, Forms and Official Opinions and Decisions, is by Messrs. Leavitt & Wright, Attorneys. These gentlemen are engaged in procuring War Claims in this city, and have sufficiently attested their accuracy and value in their daily practice. TRIBUNE CO. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, BY SNYDER, COOK & CO., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, |