The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-11-26
TIE STATE PENSIONS.
TIE AUDITOR BUSIGY ENGAGED
IN THE ANNUAL WORK.

Some Interesting Facts About the PEN
sioaers and the Pro Rata Amount Of
Each.
State Auditor Sanderlin is busily en-
gagged in his annual State Pension work
just now. The warrants for pensions
will be sent out about December 1st,
1890.
Some points Of the new pension law
are not familiar to the public, and since
the warrants are soon to be issued all
over the State, some facts relative to
the law may prove Interesting
The State Pensioners are divided into
four classes, who are to receive pensions
according to the degree Of disability
under the following grade:
1st. To such as have received wound
which renders them totally incompetent
to perform manual lab0rin the ordinary
avocations of life, one hundred dollars.
2d. To such as have lost leg above
the knee or an arm above the elbow,
seventy-fiye dollars.
Sd. To such as have lost foot or
leg below the knee, or hand or arm te-
low the elbow, Or have 2 leg or al u rem
dered utterly useless by reason of a
wound or permanent injury, fifty dol
lars.
4th. To such as have lost one eye, and
to all INDECENT widows rema;Ging IN
married, and all other sold ers Wlo are
| otherwise disabled to perform manual
labor by reason of wounds received
while in the Confederate service, twenty
FIVE dollars
In case the amount appropriated
by he General Assembly in any year for
lhe purpose Of paying the above allow
aUeeo DE insufficient to pay the same in
| full, then the same shall be annually
apportioned pro rata among the fore
| going grades, observing the gGadation,
50 as to ave the greater proportionate
amouni o} aid to those more seriously
disabled, as IN this act set forth
The 4 ditor's books show that, in
Guiding all grades, there are 3 $50 appii-
cants who have been adjudged entitled
to PENSIONS under the law, Of the follow
ing grades and numbers:
20 Of the First class, 800 each.
22O . i" Second . rs
$50 " 9 Third $ so
1850 " I" Fourth g 25
To pay all these pensioners the full
amount prescribed by the grade section
would require S121 600.
The pension fund is derived from tht
| following section of the new pension
law:
That a tax of three cents on every on
hundred dollars value Of real and per
sonaI property Of this State, and moneys
credits, investments in bonds, joint
stock companies or otherwise, and also
tax of nine cents on each taxable poll 0
male between the ages Of twenty-on'
and fifty years, except the poor and in
may declare and accord as subjects 70
exemption, shall be and are hereby lev
led to be eappleed to the special object 0
of paying the pensions provided for il
this act and to on other purpose.
This tax yields total revenue for thi
year Of about $50, 1000; and since tn
amount is insufficient to pay the pen
sions prescribed in full, it must be ar
: portioned pro rata among the pensioners
observing the gradations SO as to Civ
the greater proportionate amount t
} those more seriously disabled; and III
der this rule, the following is the az
, portionment for each pensioner:
2 40 of the First class S71 90 eac
$ 22O +" 9 Second . 53 %
} $50 /" g Third :" 35 80 :"
, $500 . g Fourth {" 1915 :"
The pension warrants will therefor
8 be sent out this year according to I'll
g apportionment Of this table.
e A large number Of the Fourth ella;
e are widows of Confederate soldiers, al
Q this is the only class in which they ca
come.