1st Session.

No. 151.

IN SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.

JUNE 17, 1850.

Submitted, and ordered to be printed.

Mr. JONES made the following

REPORT:

The Committee on Pensions, to whom were referred certain papers and documents in aid of the claim of Famous Mortimer for an increase of pension, beg leave to report:

That said Mortimer was placed on the pension list on the 7th of June, 1848, at the rate of twenty dollars per annum, to commence on the 4th of March, 1831. The proof in said case is not, in the opinion of the committee, sufficient to warrant them in recommending an increase of pension, and they ask to be discharged from its further consideration.

1st Session.

No. 152.

IN SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.

JUNE 17, 1850.

Submitted, and ordered to be printed.

Mr. JONES made the following

REPORT:

The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Silas Chatfield, for arrearages of pension, report:

That said petitioner was, on the 22d of May, 1847, placed upon the pension-roll, at the rate of twenty dollars per month, to commence on the 1st of January, 1846, that being the day on which his testimony was completed. The petitioner was a captain in the war of 1812, and bravely conducted himself in several severe battles with the enemy. He states that as he advances in age the disability from his wounds increases; but the committee do not see in his case any good reason to depart from the usual regulation, by which a pension is made to commence on the date of the completion of the applicant's proof. They therefore report adversely to his petition, and ask to be discharged from the further consideration thereof.