request that you would be pleased to cause me to be informed whether any such payment of arrears has been made
date of the list transmitted to this office by your direction
partial payment
amount to each individual
presuming on the accuracy of the list received
entitled to pensions by the Acts of Congress for the arrears of their pensions
necessary to ascertain with precision the sum due to each individual of the above description
several of the states may have paid a part or the whole of the said arrears since the return received at this office
Congress of the United States have directed the register of the Treasury to issue certificates to the military invalids and the widows and orphans of such officers, non commissioned officers and privates who were killed or died in the services of the United States