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35th Congress, ) HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. ( Report 
 Ist Session. \ } No. 315. 
 
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 ANTHONY WALTER BAYARD. 
 
 [To accompany Bill H. E. No. 521.] 
 
 April 17, 1858. 
 
 Mr. Anderson, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, made the 
 
 following 
 
 REPORT. 
 
 The Committee on Invalid Pensions, to loliom were referred the memorial 
 and accompanying papers in case of Anthony Walter Bayard, asking 
 an increase of invalid pension, report: 
 
 That at the 2cl session of the 33d Congress, a report and bill for his 
 benefit was introduced, your committee will now adopt that bill and 
 report, and submit the same to the House : 
 
 The Committee on Invalid Pensions, to whom ivas referred the petition 
 of Anthony Walter Bayard, have had the same under cojisideration 
 and report : 
 
 That the petitioner was a private in the war of 1812, and served in 
 the wars with the Indians in the northwest, and that he was severely 
 wounded upon three occasions, by which he is wholly disabled, and 
 for which he was placed on the pension roll, in 1844, at the rate of 
 eight dollars per month. He is now poor, very helpless and decrepit. 
 He was a very daring and valuable soldier. At the siege of Fort 
 Harrison the Indians succeeded in setting fire to one of the block- 
 houses, which communicated to the roof of the soldiers' barracks. 
 Tlie commanding officer called for volunteers to go upon the roof, in 
 point-blank shot of the enemy's rifles, and extinguish the fire. The 
 petitioner and another soldier volunteered, and mounted the burning 
 roof. His companion was instantly shot dead, and the petitioner 
 badly wounded. He succeeded in extinguishing the fire. This ser- 
 vice was, at the time, regarded by the officers as most hazardous and 
 of great value to the American forces. The petitioner claims that his 
 disability is total, rendering him dependent ; that it results from 
 wounds received whilst rendering most gallant, hazardous, and valu- 
 able services ; and that, in such a case, a pension of eight dollars per 
 month is not sufficient. If, for gallant services and entire disability, 
 it were justifiable, by special enactment, to grant relief beyond the 
 provisions of the general pension law, in any case, the committee 
 know of no case more meritorious than that of the petitioner. The 
 committee will not so recommend, but report a bill for such action as 
 the judgment of the House may approve. 
 

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