The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-03-07
Sec. s. Four members Of said board

entitled, they shall certify the same tt
the State board Of petitioners. to be re
Waved by them. TIE compensation OF
the members of said board shall be 5:
per day for each dav's service, not eX,
ceeding, however, Tive days ser7iee 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 varioas
counties the lists of the names aud
amonuts approved by them. and said
clerks Of courts shall record the same
in book, and sold roll so made up shall
be designated approved pension rolls
for l9-,' and such persons shall con-
stitute 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
6rst day Of February Of each year, to
be by him submitted to the State board
of pensions for their rcvieS. In the ex-
animation of the applications Of each
person for pension, the said board
shall inquire particularly into all the
facts sc, forth in the application, and
shall have the right 10 examine such
witnesses and to take sach evidence as
to determine the right O. 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 re-
port to the State board of pensions,
they shall set forth, 10 concise aud plain
language. giving in detail (aud sepa
rs,ely) their findings upon each ma
terial allegation contained in the ap-
plication.
Sec. II. Each of the county boards
shall keep book 10 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 court of
common pleas for each county; and the
clerk shall from said book certify to the
comptroller general, ou or before the
first day of February of each year, the
number Of pensioners who are still
alive and entitled to the pension.
Sec. ~. 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 nay deem proper and right
upon the facts presented by the said
board, or upon such additional facts
connected Herewith as they may be pro-
cure; but they have no right In any
cese TO grant pension unless the same
has been regularly approved by the
county board of pensions.
Sec. 13. The county board Of pensions
shall be constituted sf follows: On the
first Saturday in August of each year
the surviving soldiers and sailors OF the
State or the Confederate States, IN the
late war between the States, IN each
townshsp, shall meet at a time and
place therein designated by the chair.
man of the county board, by two weeks
public notice, and having organized By
electiug a chairman and secretary
shall elect by ballot and cx Confederate
soldier or sailor, not a holder Of nor an
applicant for pension, as the repre-.
sentative of the veterans OF said town
ship.
The representatives so elected shaI!
meet at the county court house on the
first Monday in September following,
AID 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 aud qualified. In
those townships where the veterans
failed to select representative as here
inprovided, the chairman Of the county
pension board shall appoint some per.
SON otherwise qualified as representa-
tive until such election shall be had;
and 10 these counties where the survlv-
ors failed to organize county board as
herein provided, the State board of pen
sions may appoint four ex Confederate
soldiers or sailors otherwise qualified to
organize and constitute SAID county
board.
Sec II. In case there shall be in any
township no person qualified to act as
representative, then the veterans may
elect, or in case of their failure so to do,
the chairman of the couoty pension
board may appoint, some properly
qualified veteran residing elsewhere in
said county.
Sec. Is. The comptroller general shall
be chairman of the State board of pen
siops, and he with three ex-Confederate
soldiers, not holders of nor applicants
fer pensions, to be selected By the
United Confederate Veterans associa-
tien at their annual meetings, together
with competent physician to be Sc
lected By them, shall constitute the said
State board Of pensions. That the
comptroller general shall appoint a
suitable person to serve as clerk OF
State board Of pensions; said clerk to
receive salary of 5000 per auuum fol-
his services. In case of failure to select
by the said veterans association, the
three members properly qualified shall
be appointed by the governor. The
term of Office of the selected member Of
said board shall be for one year and
until their successors are elected or ap'
pointed and have qualified.
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