St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-12-31
BOARD OF PENSIONS.
It Has Examined Claims
of Confederate
Veterans.

have been hard at work in Baton
Rouge examining claims of Con-
federate veterans for pensions, ad-
journed last Tuesday week. Col.
Chalaron gave the following as the
result of their labors:
The Board Of Pension Commits
sioncrs has considered and passed
upon the 1881 applications for pen
sions. 1t approved and provision
ally classed l5s as No. 1, 2l3 No.
2, 333 as No. 8; total 600. 1t
passed 26s subject tofuture consid-
Grafton and action, 129 for specific
information, and rejected 240,
making a total 1851. Many more
would have been allowed had the
funds been sufficient. Applications
are still coming in, and quite a
number have been passed over on
account of defective proof and re-
turned to the parties for further
information. The board has found it
necessary to withhold part of the
funds until its next quarterly meet
ing, to meet those and future de-
mands. The board has also been
obliged, on account of the large
number of present and prospective
applications, and the limited appro-
priation, to grade the amount to be
paid into three classes. 2 and 8
each less than So per month, say
SO, IS and s. respectively.
Eight days and many hours Of
the night the boar dpassed upon
the mass of formal applications.
reading each separately, bordering
over the facts as to age, nativity,
army services, wound disease, disa-
pllity, indigency, family demands,
etc., and discriminating the best it
could from the papers themselves,
between the very destitute and
helpless and those not badly af-
flicted or impoverished. 1t has been
an ungrateful task to reject worthy
old Confederate poor.
The board has ample power to
punish any frauds, and will use
all the means necessary to discover
and thwart any wrong doings. Il
is resolved not only to strike from
the pension rolls hereafter all who
are not entitled, under the law, to
receive the pension, but will en-.
deavor to prosecute and punish
criminally the guilty. 1t relies
upon the non-pension Confederates
through the State for the necessary
information to purge the pension
list of unworthy material if any,
and aid the board n making it a
roll of honor and pride to every
veteran in the State.
Payments will he Immediately
| made to the LIST of January, 1899,
dating from the filing of each ap'
plicatlon, after which every three
months by check In favor of the
pepsioner, mailed to his or he'
postoffice address.
Hereafter il will be useles for any
soldier to apply who has any livcli'
hood, property or strength to work.
The board regrets to have found
that a few officers and pension at
torneys have contracted for exces'
sive compensation for the simple
labor of filling up the blanks, and
has fixed the maximum fees fol
such services at 81.
There are in the first grade
sighty-seven pension widows ano
sIxty-six old soldiers, and q few
widows in other grades.
The Board is composed as fol
lows: Col. j. A. Chalaron, presi'
dent; Judge J. c. Moncure, judge
David Pierson, State Auditor W.
w. Heard, Adjutant General Aller
Jumel. Capt. E. f. Brian is 1t:
secretary. Notices will be mailed
in few days to all applicants who
have been adjudged pensions, ane
instructions when and how to OBJ
tain what Will be coming to then
up to the LIST of January, 1899
The board was in full complement
and worked uninterruptedIy since
the 18th until this evening, goth
| instant, adjourning only for ont
hour each day, and its daily ses
sions were for twelve to sixteer
hours. 1t has cheerfully and con
scientiously performed very la
borious duty.
S.uotor Coffary. nrodicfS that thu