22d CONGRESS, 1st Session.

[Rep. No. 234. ]

MARTIN SMITH.

[To accompany bill H. R. No. 344.]

FEBRUARY 2, 1832.

Mr. BURGES, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, made the following

REPORT:

The Committee on Invalid Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Martin Smith, report:

In the case of Martin Smith, it appears, and is fully proved, that his disability, arising from wounds received in the service as a private in the army of the United States during the last war, was proved to the satisfaction of the War Department in the month of June, 1815; and that a pension to the amount thereof, being three-fourths of a total disability, would then have been granted to him, had the place of his residence been known at the pension office. It further appears, that, on his application therefor, to wit, afterwards, on the 18th of March, 1830, he was enrolled on the invalid pension list, at the rate of three-fourths disability; and has since that time received a pension at that rate. It does not appear, nor is any sufficient reason given or offered, why said Smith's pension was not made to commence on the 11th day of May, 1815, when he was, in a condition threefourths disabled, discharged from the service. It is, therefore, considered by the committee, that said Smith is entitled to have his name re-inscribed on said pension roll, as on said 11th day of May, 1815, at the rate of six dollars per month; and to be paid at that rate, from that time until the said 18th day of March, 1830, as arrears of his pension granted to him at that time.

1st Session.

DANIEL PALMER.

[To accompany bill H. R. No. 344.]

FEBRUARY 2, 1832.

Mr. BURGES, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, made the following

REPORT:

The Committee on Invalid Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Daniel Palmer, report:

The petitioner was a soldier in the late war; that, while in the service of his country, he lost his right leg. That he was put on the invalid pension roll of the United States, at $6 per month, on the 29th September, 1815; that, on the 12th May, 1820, in consequence of a representation made to the Secretary of War, his pension was increased to $8 per month: he now prays for the difference of 6 to 8 dollars per month, from the aforesaid 29th September, 1815, to 12th May, 1820, a period of four years, 5 months, and 4 days. He also states, that, in the case of Captain Moore, of the Baltimore volunteers, who lost a leg while in the service, he was allowed at the pension office two thirds disability; that, some time after, on representation to the Secretary of War, his pension was increased to full pay, to commence at the date of his certificate. The petitioner, therefore, prays that he may have a law passed for his relief.

22d CONGRESS, 1st Session.

[Rep. No. 263. ]

HENRY CLICK.

[To accompany bill H. R. 344.]

FEBRUARY 2, 1832.

Mr. BURGES, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, made the following.

REPORT:

The Committee on Invalid Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Henry Click, report:

That the petitioner enlisted in Brevet Major Parkan's company, of the 4th regiment of United States' infantry, on the 10th day of August, 1814, for five years. By the certificate of P. L. Clinch, Lieutenant Colonel of said regiment, it appears that he was honorably discharged on the 31st day of August, 1816, "on the surgeon's certificate, as being disqualified to perform the duties of a soldier, by reason of a rheumatism of the loins." The petitioner states in his affidavit, that this disability was caused by a pile of barrels of flour breaking down upon him, whilst employed in the discharge of his duty in packing away flour, at the agency on Flint river, by which his hip, loins, and back were injured. He produces a certificate signed by William V. Chester and John P. Chester, surgeons, dated November 18, 1831, and sworn to before Jacob Brown, justice of the peace for the county of Washington, State of Tennessee, stating that, by satisfactory evidence, it appears that the petitioner, on the 9th day of May, 1816, being engaged in packing away flour in the military storehouse at Flint river, fort Hawkins, in the State of Mississippi, received a wound in his back, side, and loins, which has removed his hip bone, on the right side, from the back bone; so that, in their opinion, he is thereby one half disabled from obtaining his subsistence from The fact of his entering the army in perfect health and conmanual labor. stitution, is certified by Charles Graham and Wm. Wilson, under oath. The committee report a bill.