Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-11-26
Pension Commissioner Report.

The annual report of Hon. c. c. Cox,
Commissioner of Pensions, has been nm
ished, and the same has been submitted
to the secretary of the Interior, for trans
mission to Congress. The following ab-
stract has been prepared, which embra-
ces all the interesting statistics in the
report: Number of original invalid pen
sions admitted during the year was ,325,
atan annual aggregate rate of S62S, I'll 20;
increased pensions allowed 4,S54, at an
annual aggregate rate of ,4S1 D.
The average rate of original pensions
granted is 6,737! or 435l less than the
preceding year; number of original APP
plicants by widows, orphans and other
dependant relatives was lO,2i2, which
were granted at an annual aggregate
rate of 81 $40, ,2O2 20; increase of pensions
under this class q ,O53, at an annual ag-
gregate rate of 81, ,725, ,060. The whole
number of invalid pensioners borne upon
the rolls on the 30th day of June, 1858,
were "A, 7S2, who were paid in the aggre-
gate at the rate of S5,82S, OPS 26; and the
total number of widows, orphans and
other dependent relations in this Glars,
81, ,243, who were paid in the aggregate
at the rate of Sl2065 ,O6S "a. The total
number of both classes was l67 ,O25, at
total annual rate of SIS, ,S93, ,0y4 20. Or-
iginal invalid pensions allowed l35, at
the annual rate of ST., $50, and the same
class were increased fifty, at the total
annual rate of s., ,994; widows and min
ors admitted 2l9, at the aggregate rate of
SIG, ,lO2; increased y at the total annual
rate of s., 800. The total number of navy
invalid pensioners OIL the rolls at the
close of the fiscal year was ], 1,l75, at the
annual rate of S94 ,S33 75 and of widows
and minors ,443. at $685. making
total of 2, ,6lS at S33l ,09y %. Total amount
actually paid to invalid pensioners dur
ing the year ending June 80, 1858, was
81 $40, and to widows $50, ,043 2l. The
total amount of navy pensions paid
being S352, ,3S3 p. Previous to the date
of the last annual report of this office
the sole surviving soldier of the RevOlu-
ton pensioned unjEr the general laws
had died. OF the two soldiers pensioned
by special acts Of Congress then upon the
rolls, John Gray, of Ohio, and Daniel +.
Bakeman, of New York, Nancy Serana,
widow of Serana, of Pennsylvania, still
survives, the only representative on the
rolls of that class of revolutionary Wild
ows married prior to the close of tile war.
OF those married prior to January lst,
1874, there are .fifty-tive surviving; of
those married prior to January lst, 1900,
forty-five, and of those married since the
latter date 7S9, making a total OF SSS rev.
olutionsary widows upon the rolls, less by
lU9 than the number returned the previ-
Gus year. There are now upon the rolls
1908 widows and orphans OF soldiers who
served in the war subsequent to the rev.
olution and prior to 1861, an increase of
551 since the last report. The total PEN
sioners ofall classes June30, 1855, was 1857
643, paid at the aggregate rate of SIS, ,224,-
1S3 So. Pensions granted during the
year 1921; the number dropped from
the rolls 1862; number of increase, dur
ing the year 32,029; amount actually
paid for pensions, including expenses of
disbursement, was S24, ,0lO,9S1 SO, an ex-
cess Of S5,39l OPS 53 over the previous
year.