The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-01-12
THE PENSION BOARDS
WILL MEET THIRD MONDAY OF THIS
MONTH.
New Instructions Sost Tssasd By tho State

Proceed Before the 8osrd5.
The pension board will meet in
few days and in order that there shall
be IS little confusion as possible, and
in order to ensble the boards to work
with greater facility, the state pension
board has issued the following in
stIuctions:
The pension boards organized in
1887 will meet as required bylaw on
the third Monday in January at q
conYeGiept place in each township for
the purpose Of examining the town
ship rolls Of the respective townships,
ana for passing upon any new appli-
cstions for pensions. ali new appi-
cants fer pensions must appear in per.
son before the township boards. Said
applications must have the approval
Of the township and county boards
before the state board can approve.
The township boards may drop from
the rolls OF pensions the name or
names Of any party or parties which
in their judgment are not entitled to
q pension under the law, stating the
reasons therefor in writing and, also,
erase the names OF those whom they
k1oI to be dead. They may add to
the roll only such names Of new ap-
plicants as may file applications.
Those already on the pension roll need
not prepare nor file new applications.
Ali new app!:c2tions not properly
and correctly fled in each particular,
although approved by township and
| county boards, will be disapproved by
the state board. The county boards
are requested nct to forward to the
state board the names Of aoy pension
ers diSaDproved By the township or
county boards. Complete county and
township lists as approved for 1897
are herewith sent to the township
coards from Which they are expected
| to make up the list of these to be con-
tinued On the roll; the same will be
handed to the county board for their
approval.
Township and county boards will
notice that the law provides three
classes, "A, '.B" and SC" with five
subdivisions of class &c, y as follows:
Glass A-Those who have lost both
hands, or both legs, or both eyes, or
whose absolute disabilities arising
from wounds, are equivalent to the
loss OF either, ard whose income does
not exceed $3.50. This does not include
soldiers whose disabilities arise from
diseases or causes arising since the
war.
Glass B-Those who have lost one
arm or ore leg, Or whose disabilities
! from wounds are equivalent to the
| loss of an arm or leg, and whose in
come does not exceed $3.50.
| Class C.-No. 1)-Those soldiers
and sailors disabled by wounds, but
lnot sufficient to be placed in Glass B.
| whose income do not exceed $3.50.
Glass C.-(No. 2)-Those who have
reached the age OF sixty years a1d
whose income do not exceed 800.
i Glass C.-(No. 3.)-Widows OF those
: who lost their lives while in the SER
| vice Of the State or Confederate states,
and whose incomes do not exceed
$3.50.
Glass C.-(No. 4 4)--Widows above
! the age Of sixty years, whose incomes
do not exceed S100.
Glass C.-(No. 5.)--Widows Of pen
, sioners. This class is not mentioned
, in the printed acts sent out, but by the
act approved 9ih December. 1894.
| Blanks for the reports of township
and county boards in accord with
these classes and subdivisions have
been prepared and will be mailed to
!. auditors for distribution among the
boards. Glass a gets Sc per month OF
S72, and will be paid this amount;
Glass B 81 per month or $36. After
Class A shall have been paid, the bal.
ance will be pro rated between B and
Il G on the basis of 81 or So. This money
! will be sent 10 the clerks OF court IS
; heretofore IS has been provided in the
. appropriation acts each year, and will
; be sent Just as soon as the roll for the
State can be corrected and verified.
!. Township boards cannot be too care
+ ful IN these matters Of Income" and
.uhys;cal co2dition." It is a very
poor man whose gross income from
!, laoor, rent, and other sources, does
! not exceed 500. or poor lands, if any:
which will produce this amount gross
4 ! Probably sufficient 10 produce 500 II
). applicants or his wife's name deoar:
- him or her. Where soldiers or wild
+ ows dispose OF their property by Civ
!. ing or selling to their children, they
! are Gebarcsd from receiving pen
e sion.
e The question Of service to the Stat
:. in connection with the various classe
). | OF reserves called into the service 0
o the State just at the close OF the war
It will depend much upon the evidenc
e submitted to the State board. Whel
1t real service was rendered the pension
d should be allowed. Any citizen Of tn
Il Estate over sixty years of age, an
Otherwise qualified, IS as much ent;
tied to q pension as that class OF ne
good citizens who merely met and OF
3 gSpized on call, without real ser7ic
. - 10 the State.
to lowing:
J Let township and county boards &C
If promptly SEO larry S!EtHS IAo OsS
i ! beard fuIl information with ccmplet
n raports by township for each county
d I: writing names full ard clear, wit
| particulars for approving or dlsaE
! brewing in each case. Townshl
IS ! boards mus! first approve or dissE
? prove, II w1itirg, each new applies
Of .iau, and tGea county boards, and s
~ .erwards the State board. In maxim
A. reports to county boards toWnsnl
Il boards Should be sigu@d by e%ca men
3 bgr. Respectfully,
n. D q. T0mpEius So. OF State; W
X Barber, A.!2saey General; I. I
;Egto1, Compsr2lI;. General; Stat
/ Bozr&; Ct Pension.
St Attest: K4Ie F. Maher, Pensio
ID Clerk.
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