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.
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