The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-04-15
1HsPENS!toN BOARDS.
The O O,ganiz alton Of All Work fer the Va.
rious Boards Pointed Out.

The following rules for the guidance
of township and county boards of pen
sions have just been issued by the
State Board:
The pension boards organized In
1896 will at ono, call together the sol
diers and sailors resident in such town
ship in their respective counties, nix
ing the time and place for each meet
ing in each township. Those soldiers
and sailors. when assem- bled, elect one
of their numbers chairman and anoth-
er ec,etsry. Ten days after this town
ship organization the chairmen OF
these township boards meet at the
county seat and elect four of their
number and one physician as county
examining board of pensions.
Pensioners now applicants for pen
sions cannot be elected a member OF
township pension boards. When old
soldiers cannot be found in the town.
ships, reputable resident citizens may
be elected II any to vnship shall fail
or refuse to organize as required by
this act, then the county board should
recommend three good men, not pen-
sioners, to the State Pension Board,
who will APPOINT such township boards.
All pensioners resident in the town
ships must appear IN person before the
township boards. Those already on
the pension roll need not prepare and
file new applications. All new appli-
cants must be presented to and have
the approval or disapproval. of the
township boards and county boards
before the State Board, can approve.
Township boards can drop from the
roll of pensioners, as now constituted,
the name or names of any party or
parties which in their judgment are
not entitled to a pension under the
laws, and add to the roll only such
names OF new applicants as may file
such applications, with proof of SER
vice thereon, as indicated by the
blank forms prepared by the State
Board.
Applications defective or not filled
up correctly in each particular, al.
though approved by township and
county boards, will be disapproved by
the State Board.
Applications approved or disap.
proved by the State Board caunot be
returned to, the county or township
boards after money has been prorated
and paid out. Township and county
boards will notice that the law pro.
vides three classes, "A, ""B" and 80"
with five sub divisions of class &C, "
q, f,llows:
Glass A.-Those who have lost both
arms, or both hands, or both legs, or
both eyes, or whose absolute disability
arising from wounds are equivalent to
the loss of either. This does not in.
clude soldiers whose disabilities arise
from diseases or causes arising since
the war.
Glass B.-Those who have lost one
arm or one leg, or whose disabilities
from wounds are equivalent to The
loss of IN arm or leg.
Glass C.-(No. D-Those soldiers
and sailors disabled by wounds, but
not sufficient to bs placed in class B,
whose incomes do not exceed $3.50.
Glass C.-(No. 2.)-Those who have
reached the age Of sixty years and
whose incomes do not exceed 500.
Glass C.-(No. 3. 3.)-Widows of those
who lost their lives in the service OF
the State or Confederate States and
whose incomes do not exceed $3.50.
Glass C.-(No. 4.)-Widows above
the age of sixty years, whose income
does net exceed $100.
Glass C-(No. 5.)-Widows of pen
sioners. This class is not mentioned
in the printed Act sent out, but by the
act approved - December, 1894.
Blanks for the reports Of town.
ship and county boards in accord
with these classes and Subdivisions
have been prepared and mailed to
Auditors to distribute among these
boards. Glass A gets IS per month or
$72, and will be paid in full thin
amount; Glass B, 81 per month o.
$48; and class @ with each of its sub
divisions, $3 per month or $50. After
class A is paid, the balance will be
pro rated between B and G on the
basis OF 81 to s.. This money will b.
sent to the clerks of Courts as hereto.
fore provided in the appropriation
Acts each year, and will be sent just
as soon as the roll for the State can
be corrected and completed.
Township boards cannot be too care
full in these matters of Income" and
ply sical condition. It is a very poor
man whose gross income from labor
and other sources. does not exceed
800, or poor lands, if any, which
does not produce this amount. Prop
erty in applicants or his. wife's namts
debars them. Where soldiers or wild
ows dispose of their property by giving
or selling to their children, they are
debarred from receiving a pension.
The question of service to the State
in connection with the various classes
of reserve carried into the servics Of
the State just at the close OF the war,
will depend much upon the evidence
submitted to the State Board. When
real service was rendered, ahe pension
should be allowed. Any citizen of
the State over sixty years OF age, and
otherwise qualified, is as much enti-
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