mother in the order named. Application for such payment to be made to the senior paymaster of the district in which the prisoner is serving, and must be accompanied by the certificate of a judge of a court of the United States, or of some other party, under the seal of a court of record of the State in which the applicant is a resident, setting forth that the applicant is the wife of the prisoner, the guardian of his children, or his widowed nother; and, if occupying either of the last two relationships towards him, that there is no one in existence who is more nearly related to him, according to the above classification.

Payments will be made to parties thus authorized and identified, or their receipts made out in a manner that would be recognized by the prisoner himself, at least one month's pay being in all cases retained by the United States. The officer making the payment, will see that it is entered on the last previous musterroll for the payment of the prisoner's company, or will report it, if those rolls are not in his possession, to the senior paymaster of the district, who will either attend to the entry or give notice of the payment to the Paymaster-General, if the rolls have been forwarded to his office.

Rules Observed at the Office of the Fourth Auditor in the Settlement of Claims to Balances Due to Deceased Seamen or Marines at the time of their Death.

1. Payment of balances due deceased seamen or marines will not be made except to administrators, who are heirs, or appointed with the consent of heirs, or to creditors to the amount of their respective claims. But no payment shall be made to a creditor until the balance due the deceased person shall have remained in the Treasury, uncalled for by an administrator appointed as aforesaid, for six weeks after information of the death of such person shall have been received at the Department; and where the balance exceeds the sum of twenty dollars, no claim of a creditor will be paid, until an advertisement shall have been inserted for three successive days, in the newspaper employed to publish the laws in the city of Washington, calling upon other claimants to present their claims at the office of the Fourth Auditor within two months; at the end of which term, if the bal

ance shall not have been demanded by an administrator ap pointed as aforesaid, the claims which shall have been presented and proved before the accounting officers will be paid in equal proportion, the expense of the advertisement having been first defrayed out of the sum due to the deceased person at the time of his death.

2. Payment of arrearages claimed under a will, will only be made after satisfactory proof of the will is adduced to the ac counting officers. Wills of persons in actual service must be in writing, and attested by an officer, if the testator were not himself an officer. The executor will be required to produce the original will, or a copy duly authenticated.

3. Heirship, or consent of heirs, may be shown by the fact being inserted in the letters of administration, or must be proved by the affidavit of two disinterested persons, taken before an of ficer empowered to administer oaths.

4. Payment may be made immediately to the heirs of the deceased, when it shall be shown that the cost of obtaining administration at the proper place would exceed one-third part of the balance due.

5. The penalty of the administration bond should be shown by the certificate of administration, or otherwise.

Form of Application for Payment for Horses, or other Property Lost or Destroyed.

On this day of

me, a

A. D. 18—, personally appeared before within and for said county, duly authorized to administer oaths, -, a resident of said county, to me well known, who being by me duly sworn, deposes and says that he is the dentical in the company commanded by in the regiment of -, commanded by; that he entered the service of the United States on or about the

of

who was a

-day

A. D. 18—, and was regularly mustered intɔ said service, and mounted upon a horse of the following description, viz., which said horse was appraised in due form of the value of $ that he continued mounted upon the said horse until the day of 18, when the said horse was lost in consequence of, and in the manner following, viz.: That at the time of the loss aforesaid he was under the imme.

diate command of day of

that he was remounted on the
A. D. 18-, on a horse valued at $-
who was

which and continued so remounted 18, when he was regularly and honorably mustered out of the service by

he obtained of
until the day of

And further, that he has not received from any officer or agent of the United States any horse, or other property in lieu of the horse lost as aforesaid, nor has he received any compensation for the same; the same having been lost without any fault or neg ligence on his part.

[Claimant's Signature.]

Sworn to and subscribed, before me, this A. D. 18-.

day of [Officer's Signature.]

NOTE. If the property was hired by the government, the fact should be stated, giving also the name,official rank and position of the person who made the contract; or if impressed for the use of the army, a description of the property, also the name, official position, etc., of the person seizing the same.

day of

A. D. 18-, before me, a

On this within and for said county, duly authorized by law to adminster oaths, personally came a resident of said county, to me well known to be a credible witness, who, being by me duly sworn, deposes and says that he is the identical who was the Captain commanding the company —— in the regiment commanded by Colonel in the service of the United States, in was a in the said company,

the war with

that

which said horse was that the horse above de

having been regularly enrolled and mustered into the service, that at the time he was mustered, he was mounted on a horse of the following description, viz.: duly appraised and valued at $scribed was lost on the day of in the manner following, viz. :

in consequence of which said loss was sustained

day of

was remounted A. D. 18, and con

A. D. 18-.

without any fault or negligence on the part of the claimant. And deponent further states, that the said after said loss, on the tinued so remounted until the- day of And deponent further states, that the horse upon which the said - was remounted after said loss, was not furnished by the United States, nor any of their officers or agents, nor been owned by another mounted militiaman or volunteer, to whom payment for the loss and risk thereof, or for its forage while in possession of the said could have been made except

And deponent further states, that the horse upon which the Baid was remounted, was purchased by him of one paid for the same.

and the sum of $-
And deponent further states, that the said

discharged on

day of

18-.

——was honorably

Subscribed and sworn to, before me, the day and year aforesaid

Power of Attorney.

[Officer's Signature.]

of

Know all men by these presents that I, named in the foregoing declaration and affidavit, do hereby constitue and appoint my true and lawful attorney, au

in

thorizing him to file this my claim for payment, for
the military service of the United States and to do all acts neces-
sary and proper in the premises; to receive and receipt for a
draft payable to my order for such sum as may be found due
upon examination and settlement of my claim.

Witness my hand and seal this day of
Signed, sealed in presence of
[Two Witnesses.]

STATE OF

A. D. 18-.

[L. 8.]

County of

88.

before me the above named

A. D. 18-, personally appeared

to me known, and acknow

ledged the foregoing power of attorney to be his act and deed

for the purpose therein mentioned.

[Officer's Signature.]

CONSTITUTION

OF THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

We the People of the United States, in order to form a more per fect Union, establish justice insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this CONSTITUTION for the United States of America

ARTICLE I.

SECTION 1. All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.

SEC. 2. The House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several States, and the electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State Legislature.

No person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty-five years, and been seven years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.

Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other persons. The actual enumeration shall be mad within three years after the first meeting of the Congress of th United States, and within every subsequent term of ten years, in such manner as they shall by law direct. The number of Rep resentatives shall not exceed one for every thirty thousand, bu each State shall have at least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New-Hampshire shall be entitled to choose three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New-York six, New