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by attorneys and claim agendas. Latterly, also, at the request of the Commissioner of Pensions, considerable work has involved upon it in furnishing information concerning claimants for pensions, and in paying pensions at points in the south remakes from regularly established Pension Agenda.  On March 16th 1870, the Secretary of War, on account of frauds practiced upon claimants for Commutation of Pensions, while Prisoners of War, directed that all such claims in certain pensions of Tennessee and Alabama, be referred to this Bureau for evidence to perfect the same, and that payments be made through the same channel. The following is an exhibit of the receipt, settlement, etc., of these claims, the work of which is performed entirely by Mr. A. U. Thompson in addition to his other duties:

   Paid forty four (44)
Pending settlement fifty (50)
Undergoing Investigation One hundred and Eighty.(180)
[[stamp]] The National Archives of the United States [[\stamp]]
   As it is not probable that the Government will long continue to perform the office of attorney in prosecuting claims against itself, it is proper, in view of the facts above alluded to, to consider, anticipating a change to what will become of the claims in process of settlement when such change is made. Would it not be wise to provide ahead