Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-04-07

he politira Suria Asrultunl and Commercial Snterests
APRIL r, 1897.

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 an arm or leg.
Glass C.-(No. 1.)-Those soldiers
and sailors disabled by wounds, but
not sufficient to be placed in class B,
whose incomes do not exceed $3.50.
Class C.-(No. 2.)-Those who have
reached the age of 60 years and whose
incomes do not exceed 500.
Glass C.-(No. g. 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 60 years whose income does
not exceed 500.
Class C.-(No. g. 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 township
and county boards in accord with
these classes and subdivisions have
been prepared and mailed to auditors
to distribute among the boards. Class
A gets Sc per month or $72, and will be
paid in full this amount, Glass B, 81
per month or S4s; and Class C, with
each of its subdivisions, So per month
or $36. After Class A is paid, the
balance will be pro rated between B
and G on the basis of 81 to So. This
money will be sent to the clerks of
courts as heretofore provided in the
appropriation acts each year, and will
be sent just as soon as the rnll for the
state can be corrected and completed.
Township boards cannot be too care
full in these matters of "income" and
"physical condition" 1t is a very
poor man whose gross income from
labor, and other sources, does not ex-
ceed 500, or poor lands, if any, which
will not produce this amount. Prop
erty in applicants or his wife's name
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 reserves called into the service 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, the pension
should be allowed. Any citizen of
the state over 60 years of age, and
otherwise qualified, is as much entitled
to a pension as that class of her good
citizens who merely met and organized
on call, without real service.
Let township and county boards act
promptly and fairly, giving the state
board full information with complete
reports by township for each county,
writing names full and clear, with par
ticulars for approving or disappearing
each case. Township boards must
approve or disapprove, in writing, each
new application, and then county
boards, and afterwards the state board.
When old boards QS96) have acted
under laws then of force and approved
or disapproved applications for pen
sions, let such applications be sent to
township boards, then to county boards
to be approved or disapproved under
the act of 1897 amending former acts.
Respectfully,
D. H. Tompkins,
Secretary of State.
w. A. Barber,
Attorney General.
James Norton,
Comptroller General.
State Board of Pensioners.