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Show ARREARS OF PENSIONS. I The new pension law has brought j so many persons within its Bcope, that: Commissioner Bentley, of the pension bureau, has very wisely issued a cir cular for the purpose ol protecting tho baueficiariua from tho rapacity of claim agoutis. Tuero are many in this territory who are eutiil:d to the benefits of the law, beuce we publish i below the forms to be tilled and signed by the applicant?. The commissioner states that persons who are entitled to arrears ol penaions under tho act, and wbeso peusioua have been grauttd previous to its date, will not require the services of an attorney in obtaining the amount due them, and directs that "all correspondence corres-pondence ia relation to any claim for such arrears will bo with the person entitled, and no claim agent will be recognized in such claim." The pensioner pen-sioner entitled to arrears has simply to address a letter to the commissioner of peusiocs, Bigued by himself, attested at-tested by two witntsscs aa to hia identity, and certitkd by a magistrate. magis-trate. The certificate which the ponsioner already has in his posses- aion e lieu Id not bo sent to the coinmis j siener, but must be exhibited to tho certifying witnesses and magistrate. ! The commissioner furnishes in bis circular the following forma ot letter and certificate which pensioners should follow literally filling iu tho 1 blanks as indicated. : To the Commissioner of Potiiijns: 1 I , a poosionor under pen- son certiEcMo No. , hcruby apply for ; tho arrears duo mo under the act grant- : inj; arrears of pension s.sj'provtxl January 'JO, l7t. My post oiwo address (hero . insert tbo name of the post ciliro, and if lh, cNiiuanl resides in a cilv, lliij name, aad number of the streoi acd. resideao-) ' ir.uit also be given.) ! .Naaio of els.im.i3t. Two 1 iUte of , County of , $.: ) Evened in my prciecce, by , ; wiu u known by mo to bo i lie person ho dcrv-ril'cs him-elf to Ik1, and at the same ' time bo eihib.ted to me his ponaioi cer-j ': lie ate, wjijb iitmmlHToi - ili-istrate's s:g3turo With tuh plain instructions pensioners pen-sioners will have no e.Tcue I t per-: niitting thy:ns( Ives to be preyid upon I by ueuts and attorneys, and there ' 1 wii! bo no occasion to d.vMe the. Rfucrous bounty of g jver.i'i.cn". wiiii : sharpers. T:ie officios are pvu!eut!y disposed to protect too pens uuers, and the Utter ehouM have no hcji-, tancy in rtjcctiug the aiivjuci's of !' epcculators, and dealing directly with' tho bureau at Wnibiutou. |