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."
It is the judgment of the Postmaster-General, whose report accompanies this message, that if this bill should become a law in its present form it would fail to give effect to its provisions. The remedial suggestions in his report are respectfully recommended to your attention,
U.S. GRANT.
POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT,
Washington, D.C., July 19, 1876.