New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-10-19
GEO. E. BOVEE,
Secretary OF State.


| To Provide Pensions for the Veterans of
eighteen hundred and fourteen and eight.
cen hundred and fifteen, or their Widows
according to the requirements of Article
One Hundred and Twentyfour of the
Constitution Of eighteen hundred and
sixty.eight.
SECTION /. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the State of
Louisiana in General Assem- bly, convened,
That each veteran of the years eighteen
| hundred and fourteen and eighteen hundred
and fifteen, residing in the State of Louisiana,
| or their widows, shall be entitled to an all.
nual pension of one hundred and fifty dol
lars, payable quarterly out of the State trea-
sury, out of any moneys therein not other
| wise appropriated.
SEC. 2 Be it further enacted, ETC., That
any person who has heretofore, by any act
of the General Assembly of this State, been
| accorded pension for services rendered the
State or the United States in the year A. D.
eighteen hundred and fourteen and A. d.
eighteen hundred and fifteen, and known as
veterans of those years, or their widows,
shall be entitled to the benefit of this act:
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 pensioner resides, that he saw the pen
sioner sign the warrant, and that he is the
person he represents himself to be, which
warrant shall be accompanied by the affida.
Wit of the pensioner that he is the person to
whom the laws has heretofore awarded
p nsion, which law by its date and number
| of the act shall be referred to in said affida.
Wit. .....-.-.
SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, ETC., That
every person shall be entitled to the benefit
of this act who shall make oath that he was
| tgularly in the military service of the Uni
ted States, or of this State, in the years A.
D. eighteen hundred and fourteen and
A. D. eighteen hundred and fifteen and in
that capacity was at the siege of New Or
leans in December, A. D. eighteen hundred
and fourteen, and January, A. d. eighteen
hundred and fifteen, and is now residing in
this State; who shall state in such affidavit
the company, regiment or other army di.
visions of which he was a member at that
time, and that he was honofably discharged
afterwards from the service, and that in ad-
dtion snch person shall have either evil
dence OF his having been in the military
service OF the country as above reviewed,
aud of his honorable discharge, or the evil
dence of two credible witnesses who have
been acquainted with him for at least ten
years, that he has borne the reputation
Of having been veteran of eighteen hund.
| red 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 credibiity 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 pensioner.
Sec, 4. Be it 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.
(Signed) OSCAR j. DUNN,
Lieutenant.Governor, and President of the
Senate. |
Approved October Is. 1868. r
(Signed) H. G. WARMOTH,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
A true copy: ..-t .=..
GEO. E. BOyEE,
Secretary of State.