Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-03-30
The Pensions to Elk Confederate
Soldiers.

In the County Court this week there
pension act passed by the legislature
Messrs. George Amarode. Abram Math-
ews, John S. Kennedy, George Spiers,
James S. Way. John M. Meek, Jacob H.
Dull, Jas. S. ArgeDbrlght, Elijah Bate
man. W. E. Vanfossen, j. W. Terrell,
John Ii. Whitesell and W. c. Smith.
7. For the information of our readers we
give the provisions of the law as it was
passed--the Clerks of the courts all have
the blank forms for application which
they will furnish to applicants:
The act to give aid to soldiers, sailors, and
marines of Virginia MANNED or disabled in the
war between the States, and to the widows of
Virginia soldiers, sailors and marines who
lost their lives in the said war in the military
service, approved March S, 1888, provides
that there shall be paid out of the Treasury
of Virginia, upon the warrant of the Auditor
of Public Accounts, annually, upon or after
the LIST day of April in each year, to the per-
sons hereinafter designated and described and
classified, upon the proofs hereinafter prescrlb-
ed, the amounts hereinafter specified as fol-
lows: To every person who IS and has b cen at
the time of his application citizen and resi-
dent of this State for one year, and who lost
an arm or leg or foot or hand while in dis
charge of his duty as a soldier, sailor, or
marine of Virginia in the war between the
States, the sum of thirty dollars per annum;
to every such citizen of Virginia who in like
manner lost two eyes. or two feet, or two
hands, or hand and a foot by reason of
wounds received while in discharge of his
duty as aforesaid, the sum Of sixty dollars per
annum; to every such citizen who was disa-
bled by reason of a wound received while in
discharge of his duty as aforesaid, If such
disability be proved to be total, thirty dollars
per annum; if such disability be partial fiji
teen dollars per annum; to every widow re-
naming unmarried of any soldier, sailoc, OR
marine of Virginia, whose husband lost his
life while in the discharge of his duty in the
military service Virginia or Of the Confed-
crate States, during the late war between the
States, the sum of thirty dollars per annum,
provided that at the time of such application
and of receiving aid under this act such widow
shall he unmarried and resident of Virginia,
and provided further that she shall receive
such aid only SO long as she remains unmar-
ried and resident of Virginia.
2. This act shall apply to any native of
Virginia who enlisted from any other State in
: the military service of the Confederate States,
and who is or shall be at the date of his appll-
cation for the benefit of this act a citizen and
resident of this State; but no person holding
national, State or county Office which pays
him salary or fees over $500 per annum, or
whose income from any other source amounts
to $500, or who owns in his or her own right,
or whose wife owns property of the assessed
value of more than ST. 900, or who is in receipt
of aid or of pension from any other State or
from the United States, shall be entitled to
any benefits of this act, or who is an in
mate of any soldiers home.