The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-10-20
mo. 1871

AN ACT TO PROVIDE PENSIONS FOR THE VETERANS OF
EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN AND EIGHrEEN
HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN, OR THEIR WIDOWS, AC-
CORDING TO THE KEQUIREMENTs OF ARTICLE ONE
HUNDRED AND TwEsTY-FoUR OF THE cossrITU-
TIos OF EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND sIxrY-EIGHr.
SECTION ]. Be ii enacted By the Senate and
House of Representatives OF the State Of Louisiana
in General Assembly Convened, That each vete-
ran of the years eighteen hundred and fourteen
and eighteen hundred and fifteen, residing in the
State of Louisiana. or their widow VS., shall be emit
tied to an annual pension of one hundred and fifty
dollars payable quarterly out of the State treas
ury, out Of any moneys therein not Otherwise ap-
propriated.
SEC. 2. Be II further enacted. etc., That any
person who has heretofore, by any act Of the
General Assembly of this State, been accorded q
pension for services rendered the State or the
United States in the year A. d. eighteen hundred
and fourteen and A. ID. eighteen hundred and If
teen, and known as veterans of those years, or
their widows, shall be entitled to the benefit Of
this act T; and the amount appropriated by this act
as pension for such persons, shall be paid on
their own warrant, when the signature to such
warrant is attested by certificate of the clerk of
the court of the parish in which such pensoner
resides, that he saw the pensoner sign the war
rant, and that he is the person he represents him
self to be, which warrant shall be accompanied
by the affidavit Of the pensioner that he is the
person to whom the law has heretofore awarded
q pension which law by its date and number Of
SEC. 8. BE IL further enacted. etc.. That every
person shall be entitled to the benefit Of this act
who shall make oath that he was regularly in the
military service of the United States. or Of this
State, in the years A. ID. eighteen hundred and
fourteen and A. ID. eighteen hundred and fifteen,
and in that capacity was at the siege OF New Or
leans IN December, A. ID. eighteen hundred aud
fourteen, and January, A. ID. eighteen hundred
and Fifteen and is now residing in this State who
shall state in such affidavit the company, regi-
ment, or other army divisions of which be was q
member at that time, and that he was honorably
discharged afterwards from the service, and that
in addition such person shall have either evidence
of his having been IN the military service Of the
country as above reviewed, aud of his honorable
discharge or the evidence Of two credible witness
ses who have been acquainted with him for at
least ten years. that he has borne the reputation Of
having been q veteran of eighteen hundred and
fourteen and eighteen hundred and fifteen as
above defined, and the certificate of the clerk Of
the district court Of the parish Of his residence to
the credibliy Of the applicant and his witnesses,
that the pension provided by this act shall on the
presentation of such evidence as is required by
this section, be paid on the warrant OF the pen
sioner.
SEC. 4. Be IL further enacted, etc.. That the
pension provided by this act shall take effect and
commence from the first day Of September, A. d.
eighteen hundred and sixty eight:
(Signed) CHAs. w. LOWELL.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
(Sgned) OSCAR ]. DUNN,
Lieutenant Governor and President of the Senate.
Approved October IL, 1868.
49, Governor of the State of Louisiana.
GEo. E. BovEE,
Secretary of State.