The PRESIDENT.

SIR:  I have the honor to return House bill No. 1337, “for the relief of
Nelson Tiffany.”

The Adjutant-General, to whom the bill was referred, reports as follows: 

“Nelson Tiffany, private, Company A, Twenty-fifth Massachusetts Volunteers, deserted October 10, 1864, and remained absent until April 25, 1865, when he surrendered under the President’s proclamation, thereby acknowledging his desertion.

“If this bill becomes a law, it will not only falsify the records of this Department, but will be an injustice to every man who served honorably during the War of the Rebellion.”

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Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

J.D.  CAMERON, Secretary of War.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, July 13, 1876.

To the House of Representatives: 

For the reasons stated in the accompanying report by the Commissioner of Pensions to the Secretary of the Interior, I have the honor to return without my approval House bill No. 11, entitled “An act granting a pension to Eliza Jane Blumer.”

U.S.  GRANT.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Washington July 8, 1876.

The PRESIDENT.

SIR:  I have the honor to return herewith a bill (H.R. 11) entitled “An act granting a pension to Eliza Jane Blumer,” and to invite your attention to the inclosed copy of a communication addressed to me on the 7th instant by the Commissioner of Pensions, relating to said bill.

In the opinion of this Department the misdescription of the soldier in the bill is of such a character as would render it difficult, if not impossible, to carry the provisions of the bill into effect should it become a law.

I have the honor to be, with great respect, your obedient servant,

CHAS. T. GORHAM, Acting Secretary.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Washington, D.C., July 7, 1876.

The HONORABLE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR.

SIR:  I have the honor to return herewith engrossed House bill No. 11, giving to Eliza Jane Blumer a pension as a widow of Henry A. Blumer, private of Company A, Forty-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers, with the suggestion that if the bill is intended to pension Eliza Blumer, whose application, No. 46382, on file in this office, has been rejected, it should designate the soldier as of Company B of said regiment, it failing to appear from the records of the War Department that he served in any other company than that last named.

I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

J.A.  BENTLEY, Commissioner.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, July 20, 1876.

To the House of Representatives: 

I have the honor to return herewith without my approval House bill No. 2684, entitled “An act to amend sections 3946, 3951, and 3954 of the Revised Statutes.”