The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-03-15
STATE PENSIONS.
There Was No Change in the Law at
the Late Session.


pension law Amendments were iutro.
duced by Capt. A. II. Dean, ofSpartan,
burg, and by Mr.. Laban Mauldin, Of
Pickens, but neither bill passed the sen.
ate
The state board Of pensions. through
Miss Kate +. Maher, clerk, is sending
out instructions to township and county
boards. The state board consists of NJ
r. Cooper, secretary Of state, J. P. Der.
ham, comptroller general, and G. Dun,
can Bellinger, attorney general.
The following copy of instructions to
county and township boards Will be Of
general interest.
All new applicants for pensions must
appear in person before the township
boards. Said application must haye the
approval Of the township and county
boards before the State board will ap.
prove them. The township boards may
drop from the roll Of pensioners the
name or names of any party or parties
which, i'll their judgment, are not en-
titled to pension under the law. They
may add to the roll only such names OF
new applicants as may file applications.
Those already on the pension roll need
not file new applications, but must re-
port to the board The board will pre-
pare list giving the name Of each pen
sioner who has died since the last distri-
button of pension funds, and of those
who participated in the distribution Of
1898 who, in their judgment, are not now
entitled to a pension.
All new applications not properly and
correctly filed in every particular, al,
though approved by township and coun.
ty boards, will be disapproved by the
state board. The county boards are re-
quested not to forward to the state
board theapplications Off pensioners
disapproved by township and county
boards.
Township aud county boards will no.
tice that the law provides three classes,
"a, B, &c with FIVE sub divisions
Of Glass G, as follows:
Class A.-Those who have lost both
hands, or both legs, or both eyes, or are
totally disabled, and 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 one ler and whose income does
not exceed $3.50,
Glass C, No. Those soldiers and
sailors disabled by wounds, but notsuf,
6cient to be placed in Glass B, whose
income does not exceed $3.50.
Glass G, No. 2.-Those who have
reached the age Of so years, aud whose
income does not exceed S100
Glass c, No.3.-Widows of those who
have lost their lives while III the SER
vice of the State or Confederate States.
and whose income does not exceed
$3.50.
Glass C, No. 4.-Widows above the
age of 60 years, whose income does not
exceed 500.
Glass G, No. 5.-Widows Of pension,
ers. This class is not mentioned in the
printed acts sent out, but by the act ap,
proved 9th December, 1894.
Blanks for reports Of township and
county boards have been prepared and
mailed. The board can on each blank
write the township, and then give the
pensioners in that township by classes
alphabetically.
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,
rent, and other sources, does not exceed
500, or poor lands, if any which will
not produce this amount gross. Prop
erty sufficient to produce 500 in appli,
cants OF his wifes name debars him el
her. Where soldiers or widows dispose
Of their property by giving or selling tc
their children they are debarred.
Widows of pensioners who re-marry
are not entitled any longer to pensions.
Pensioners who have moved to another
State are no longer entitled to "a PEN
sion. Those who have moved to anoth-
er county must have their name trans
terred and draw their pension from that
county.
Please note very carefully the follow
ing:
Let township and county boards act
promptly and fairly, giving the state
board full informa ion with complete re-
ports by townships for each county, and
writing the names alphabetically, full
and clear, and beginning with Glass a,
and givingreasons for approving. Town
ship boards must first approve in writ
ing each new application, and then
county boards, and afterwards the state
board. In making reports to county
boards, township boards reports should
be signed by each member.