Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-03-14

preScrlDeQ ny Tue SCale DOaTu OF pen-
sioners. After first being duly sworn,
fairly and impartially to discharge the
duties of their Office, and after said
oaths are duly filed in the Office of the
clerk of court, the said county pen
sion board shall proceed with the dis.
charge of the duties imposed upon
them, and shall certify their approval
to the state board of pensioners, Civ.
ing in detail the reasons which inhu.
enced them to grant or oppose each
application, accompanied by all the
evidences upon which they made their
decisions.
Sec. 8. Four members of said board
shall constitute the quorum. A ma.
jority of the members of the board
present may determine any matter pre-.
sented to them, subject, however, to a
right of review of the state board. AS
soon as such county board completes
its list as above, giving the names OF
the pensioners, their residences and
amount per month to which they are
entitled, they shall certify the same to
the state board of pensioners, to be re-
viewed by them. The compensation
of the members of said board shall be
81 per day for each days service, not
exceeding, however, five days service
in any one year.
Sec. 9. The state board of pensioners
shall thereupon pass upon the names
contained in said lists, and shall certify
to the clerks of courts of the various
counties the lists of the names and
amounts approved by them, and said
clerks of courts shall record the same
in book, and said roll so made up
shall be designated approved pension
rolls for 49," and such persons shall
constitute the pensioners entitled to
receive the aid herein provided for the
current year.
Sec. 10. Every application approved
by the county board, with all papers
upon which they act, shall be filed in
the comptroller generals Office by the
first day of February of each year, to
be by him submitted to the state board
of pensions for their review. In the
examination of the applications of each
person for a pension, the said board
shall inquire particularly into all the
facts set forth in the application, and
shall have the right to examine such
evidence as TO determine the right OF
such applicant to pension, and for the
purpose of this chapter the chairman
of each county pension board shall
have the right to administer oaths.
In making their report to the state
board of pensions, they shall set forth,
in detail (and separately their find
ings upon each material allegation
contained in the application.
Sec. II. Each of the county boards
shall keep book in which they shall
make list of the applicants for pen.
sions, setting forth the approval and
disapproval, which book shall be filed
in the Office of the clerk of the court OF
common pleas for each county ; and the
clerk shall from such book certify to
the comptroller general, on or before
the first day of February of each year,
the number of pensioners who are still
alive and entitled to the pension.
Sec. 12. The state board of pensions
shall have the authority, and it shall
be their duty to revise the list of pen.
sion claims allowed by each county
board, and to confirm or reject any
pension claim allowed by such board,
as they may deem proper and right
upon the facts presented by the said
board, or upon such additional facts
connected Herewith as they may be
able to procure; but they have no
right in any case to grant pension un-
less the same has been regularly ap-
proved by the county board of pen
sions.
Sec. 13. The county board of pen.
sions shall be constituted as follows
On the first Saturday in August OF
each year the surviving soldiers and
sailors of the state or Confederate
States, in the late war between the
states, in each township, shall meet at
time and place therein designated
by the chairman of the county board,
by two weeks public notice, and hav'
ing organized by electing d chairman
and secretary, shall elect by ballot, an
ex-Confederate soldier or sailor, not a
holder of nor an applicant for pen.
sion, as a representative of the veter.
ans of said township.
The representatives 80 elected shall
meet at the county courthouse on the
first Monday in September following,
and having organized by electing a
presiding officer and secretary, shall
elect from their own number four, who,
having selected competent physician,
and elected one of themselves as chair
man shall constitute, together with
such physician, the county pension
board for the year or until their sue
cessors are elected and qualified. In
those townships where the veterans
fail to select representative as
herein provided, the chairman Of the
county pension board shall appoint
some person otherwise qualified as
representative until such election shall
be had and in those counties where
the survivors failed to organize coun-
ty board as herein provided, the state
board of pensions may appoint four
ex. Confederate soldiers or sailors 9th
erwise qualified, to organize and con-
stitute said county board.
Sec. IA. In case there shall be in any
township no person- qualified to act as