Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1899-12-16
Meeting of Confederate Veterans.
NLacon. Miss IS. $50


The Confederate Veterans met Pursuant
to adjournment L. L, EIand presiding.
The committee appointed to prepare re-
solutions reported the following open let.
ter, to.wit:
Macon NoXubee County Miss, Nov. Is,
1899,
To our state Senator, Hon. J. r. Dins-
more and to our Representatives, w. j.
Hubbard W. S, Permentcr and II. II.
Brooks,
conference.-the. the ex.Confederate
soldiers Of this county, IN mass II Getting as.
sembed after due deiberation and liscus-
sion, hereby express to you our wishes as
to pension legislation by our state:
list, We think that all pension money
should 90 direct to those who are so poor
as to need it and who date til, ir disability
from wounds, injuries or diseases tie the
| time they wereI vice.
md, We thinh that The present pension
aw should be repealed and a new one en-
acted embracing the following ideas:
A roster should be reqired from each
county of all ex-Confe Ierute soldiers now
living therein This should be kept in a
book provided for this purpose and should
be kept by the chancery clerk. This roster
should show the date OF enlistment di :
charge or parole, wounds, disabilities,
company, regiment, brigade, division and
army corps.
3rd, The Chancery Clerk should Tor
ward copies OF the same to the state au.
litor, who should keep such in in suit
able book for that purpose.
4th, The board Of supervisors of each
county should be obligated to appoint a
board OF commissioners to consist OF three
soldiers, one OF whom should be q physi-
cian The duty Of this bo1rd should be to
investigate the claims OF all applying for
pei sions and to pass on the merits of the
same. No name is to be considereI where
the name is rot OIL the roster.
9Th, This board should report their &C
ton to the Chancery Clerk, who should
then forward a copy TO the state auditor.
after recording it in his own book.
9th, The auditor should the divide the
fund appropriated by the state and forward
to each county its representative share. to
be diSbursed by the Chancery Clerk. Said
pension shall not be liable for debt, bun
shall go the pensioner for his or her benefit.
It'll. We are, to man, opposed to sol
diers bones, we wish none oil them. They
are only "poor houses however fine they
may be, and arc destructive to the mani-
ness and self respect of those occupying
them and much money is thus diverted in
other channels than the soldiers pockets
Our soldiers wish to remain with their
owed ones and to share with them their
little sums.
Sth, VS. wish law passed that any ex-
Confederate soldier whose name is on the
roster, and who did soldiers duty who,
while not entitled to a state pension, by
reason Of not having received causes of
disability while in the service, yet has be-
come impoverished by disease or injury,
shall become county pensioher and shall
be properly cared for by said county, re-
eeivlng not exceeding the sum paid for the
maintenance Of our persons in the county
poor houses, but shall not be required to
reside in said poor houses.
We.wish those widows, whose hus lands
if alive, would be entitled TO pensions. who
were married to their husbands before or
during the war, to have the same rights
and privileges as their said husbands would
have if living, provided said husbands
names and services are recorded in roster
9th, We hereby wish through you to
thank the dear women of our state for their
love for, and interest in us. especially in
those OF us with whom this would have