{"value"=>"<p>Remittance records consist of three registers listing remittances forwarded to claimants and actions taken, partial name indexes for same, and receipts for remittances, which were signed and returned by claimants or their agents to ANCA. ANCA placed most receipts in individual envelopes with identifying information.</p> <p>Remittances refer to government payment certificates and official checks from various U.S. paymaster offices for allowed claims, which were forwarded to claimants or their local agents by ANCA. The term also refers to discharge and other official papers which had been submitted as proof to the government, and were returned to ANCA for forwarding. Register entries for volumes A and B provide department number (number assigned to an individual claim application by the applicable government department), register, page, number (application number assigned by ANCA; “office number” on ANCA claim jackets), name of claimant, nature (type) of claim, nature of government issue (certificate or check from applicable government department), amount (of award), to whom remitted (name and post office address), date of remittance, nature of remittance, date of acknowledgment, and remarks.</p> <p>Entries also serve as cross-references to claim entries in most of the ANCA claim registers. The number in the \"Register\" column refers to the volume number within a group of claim registers. The \"Page\" column indicates the page number of the volume with the original application information. The \"Nature of Claim\" and \"Nature of Government Issue\" columns indicate in which group of claim registers that volume can be found (e.g., widows’ pensions). Reference is also made to Special Relief Department records. Entries “Ref’d A” and “Ref’d B” correspond to their “Referred books” which are found in Department records in the Washington DC Archives.</p> <p>Each of these two remittance volumes has a related index volume. Entries are alphabetical by first letter of claimant surname and provide the page number in the respective remittance volume where that claimant's remittance information may be found.</p> <p>Register C, which lacks an index, presents a different arrangement of information. The volume was started at the time that the USSC was beginning to close down its claims service, in late 1866-early 1867. William Bascom and Charles Seaton, the ANCA agents primarily responsible for the agency's claims prosecution during this period, were instructed to make a final arrangement of the claims, during which they assigned to each a new unique claim (office) number (typically marked in blue pencil on claim jackets). Entries in this volume are in numerical order by settlement number, reflecting chronological order by month (no individual entry dates appear) and use of the new ANCA claim numbers, rather than the original office numbers. Entries provide settlement number (a unique number within this volume providing a running total of how many claims were settled), claim number (corresponding to the \"blue number\" on claim jackets), transmittal number, receipt number, name of soldier (or sailor), cash value (of remittance), and remarks. The cash value field is divided into five claim categories: invalid pension, widows’ pension (including other dependents of deceased soldiers), arrears of pay and bounty, naval pension, and prize money. The totaled monetary value of claims in each category appears at the bottom of each page and at the end of each month's entries. Page and volume references to original claim registers are not provided.</p>"}