Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1900-07-12
MISSISSIPPI MATTERS.
NOTES or PAST AND CURRENT EVENTS
BY ]. L. POWER.

Is or PAST AND CURRENT EVENTS.
BY ]. L. POWER.


The Legislature a, it, Las, .essioa
passed new pension law aud increased
the annual appropriation TO siso.eoo
There arc numerous inquiries concern.
ing II. The auditor has sent blanks 10
chaneery clerks for distribution 10 ben
efciarics The supervisory will pass on
all claims in September, TO be finally
acted upon by the auditor. The fol-
lowing may be Of inier.s, not only To
benefeiaries. bot 10 the general public
When the present constitution Of Ms
sissippi was adopted the following was
inserted:
section sss The legislature shall
provide by law pensions for INDECENT
soldiers and sailors who enlisted aud
bonorably served in the Confederate
army or navy in the late civil war. who
are now resident in this s:ate. and arr
not able TO earn a support by their os n
tabor. Pensions shall also be allowed 10
the INDECENT widows Of sach soldiers
and sailors now dead. when from age
ar disease. they cannot earn q support.
Pensions shall also be allowed 10 the
wives Of such soldiers or sailors upon
the death of the husband. IL disabled
and INDECENT aforesaid. Pensions grant
I'd to widows shall erase upon their
Subsequent marriage"
The first appropriation in the way of
pensions. WAS in 1855. when Ell .oco vas
appropriated This was increased in
i~so TO ssi, ,eoo. in is9s to 80. 20; In i-9s
20 sss. 500. in I>ss TO sss.eco, in iss,
sane. in Iaoa sl5n.con.
The bensfciaries Of the prevent Law
are: "Ail soldiers and sailors who en-
listed and bonorably served in the Con
federzte army 90 navy. who were hon
orsbly discharged or paroled or did no;
desert the Confederate service. who are
now rcsiden, Of this state. and who
are INDECENT and not able to earn . sup
port By their own labor aud rho do no,
themselves or their wives own property.
real or personal. to the value Of four
hundred dollars. are entitled to pm
sion; also the servants of such soldiers
visions of this act. and shall receive oi
any aud all such funds appropriated
therefor equally share and share alike
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