Report Of The Adjutant General Of The State Of New Jersey For The Year Ending 1878 1878 PDF Download

Excerpt from Report of the Adjutant-General of the State of New Jersey: For the Year Ending October 31st, 1878 To His Excellency, George B. McClellan, Governor and Commander-in-Chief: Sir: - I have the honor to submit the following report of this Department for the year 1878: Office Business. - The current business of the office has been transacted as rapidly as the nature of the searches required would admit. Certificates of record are constantly required by those who wish to prove military service. The records of the office are very complete of all New Jersey soldiers for the last one hundred and twenty years, and it is certainly unwise for the State to hazard these invaluable documents to destruction by fire. Official Register. - This work, issued last year, has been distributed by the commission designated by law, in the manner which appeared to them best for the public interest. The compilation has been well received by those interested in the record of the late war, and it is hoped will be preserved in families as a memorial of the service of the volunteers of this State. Pensions. - At the last session of the Legislature, a supplement was passed to the "Act for the relief of the soldiers and sailors of this State in the war of eighteen hundred and twelve," providing that the widows of soldiers and sailors, who were married to them prior to January 1st, 1825, who have not again married, and who are not entitled to a pension under any law of the United States, shall still receive the sum of one hundred dollars per annum, in equal semi-annual payments, during their lifetime. On March 9, 1878, the Congress of the United States passed an act granting a pension of like character to soldiers and sailors, and the widows of soldiers and sailors in that war. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.