The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1874-06-26
WHO ARE ENTITLED TO PEN
SIONS

sIoNS
The following are the provisions
Of the Pension Law recently passed
in Texas. Some Of our readers will
find themselves directly interested
in this matter:
The persons who are entitled to
pensions are:
LIST. Those who served as volun-
teers or regular soldiers between the
| 1sl of January, 1882 and 10Th o
October, 1886.
I'd. Santa Fe and Mier prisoners
Sd. Survivors Of Capt. Dawson
Company, massacreed near San An
tonic in 1912.
4th. Survivors of those captured
ut San Antonio in the Fall Of l841
and taken to the Castle Of Perote
and confined therein.
9TH. Survivors of Deaf Smiths
Spy Company.
The above are entitled to $3.50
year from the 18th day Of August,
1870, to the lst day of July, 1874,
payable in 500 bonds bearing 10
per cent interest, and $50 per an
mum thereafter, in money.
If disabled by wounds received in
actual service, or by loss of sight or
limb from any cause, the pension is
double the above amounts.
No person to receive any pension
after July /, 1874, unless he proves
to the satisfaction of the County
Court of his county that he has not
sufficient property without the PEN
sion.
Proofs accepted az sufficient are
as follows;
First---Certifcate of Comptroller,
issued under law of 1870, except q
to wounds and permanent disability
wounds must be proven in al
cases by oath of applicant and tm
persons present when wound wal
received. Permanent disability BY
affidavit of two respectable physi
clans.
Second-If the records at Austlr
ahow that the applicant was !
Honorably discharged, signed by
the commanding officer of his com
pany or regiment. 2. Tha. he has
received bounty or donation war
rants, not illegally issued, for mill,
tary services. 3. That he was paid
for his services while a prisoner as
above.
Third BY the affidavit Of the APP
plicant as to his place Of birth, age,
date OF immigration to Texas, com.
pany in which he served, and that
he participated in one or more OF
the battles fought between the lst
of January, 1882 and 18th of Octo-
Der, 1886, or was made prisoner in
the Mier or Santa Fe expedition, or
at San Antonio in the Fall of 1912
and taken to Perote, or is a survive
or of Captain Dawson's company, or
Deaf Smiths spy company. The
participation in battle or being made
prisoner to be proven by affidavit of
two credible persons who were in
the same battle or expedition.
Proof fled with the Comptroller
under the act of 1870 to have the
same effect as fled now.
If no application was made under
the act Of 1870 it may be made now.
If any person entitled to pension
has died since the 18th day of Au-
gust, 1870, upon making proof of
his death aud of the existence of his
surviving wife or descendants, his
pension due at the time of his death
shall be paid to the wife if living, If
not, then to his descendants.
Any paymen: of pension hereto>
fore made under the act of 1870 to
be deducted from pensions herein
allowed.
Applicants must prove their iden-
tity by their own affidavit and that
of two credible witnesses.
Persons interested, by cores
ponding with Mr.. L. Freeman, of
Marietta, Ga, will have their affairs
properly attended to on liberal
terms.