The age-herald., 1901-03-14

read as follows: That 1t shall be the duty of the State Board of Examiners to re- celve from the Auditor the applications forwarded him by the county boards, and examine carefully and separately each ap- plication. together with all the evidences furnished by said county board. and de- eide whether or not the application should be granted. and If granted in what class the pensioners shall be placed. If the appli- cation be granted they shall so endorse upon the back of the splication. If the application is refused they shall so en- dorse it, giving the grounds of refusal After the Board of State Examiners shall have passed upon the application from a county they shall return the same 10 the Auditor. who shall dispose of them az hereinafter provided.
 Section [ Be it further enacted That section 10 of said act be amended so as to read as follows: That as compensa- tion for services rendered under this act the County Board of Examiners for the year 1899 and 1900 shall receive as follows: In the counties where the applicants number 50 or less. 60 cents each for each application passed upon by them and re- ported to the State board. In counties where the number Is more than 50 and less than 100 40 cents each, and in all counties where there Is 100 or more ap- plicants they shall receive 30 cents for each applicant. After the year 1900 each member of a county board shall receive $1.OO for each application passed upon The State Board of Examiners shall re- ceive S4. % per diem for days spent in the actual discharge of duty together with the actual expense of travel to and from the capitol for one trip only; provided that in no one year shall said board be paid for more than fifteen days service.
 Sec. 8. Be 1t further enacted That sec tion IS of said act be amended so as to read as follows: That immediately after the first day of October in each year the Auditor shall ascertain the amount of pension fund subject to distribution for that year and pro rate the same among all those who have been granted pen sions in the ratio as follows: To the first class. 50 cents to the second class, 50 cents; to the third class, 40 cents, and to the fourth class % cents provided, that l ceive over sixty dollars. the second class over fifty, the third class over forty, nor the fourth class over thirty. Any amount remaining in the fund after each class shall have received Its maximum amount shall be by the Auditor certified into the general fund of the State.
 | Sec. g. Be it further enacted, That sec tion IS of said act be so amended as to read as follows: That 1t shall be the duty of the judge of probate to notify the Auditor of the death or removal from the State of any soldier sailor or widow | whose name stands upon the pension rolls, that may take place in his county and also make entry of such occurance upon the county record of pensions. The Auditor upon the receipt of such infor- nation shall note the same upon the State pension record and discontinue the issuance of warrants in their name; pro- vided that should a pensioner die before the first day of May next preceding the issuance of the warrant and the name of the widow of such pensioner has -liCt been placed upon the pension roil for the same year, the judge of probate shall de- liver the warrant to ...ie widow or minor child or children Of such deceased pen sioner, and sholld there be no widow or minor child of such deceased pensioner, the judge of probate shall endorse and collect the warrant and attach to them his certificate showing the fact upon which he is herein authorized to so en- dorse and collect the warrant and the proceeds thereof he shall apply first to l41 1F h,,r{ al | ond to the expense of the last illness of such pensoner This proviso shall apply in all cases arising after the 1st day of May 1901.
 Sec. 10. Be 1t further enacted, That | section 20 of said act be so amended as to read as follows: That the failure of an applicant to give the day of enlistment | or discharge or the letter of the company or regiment in which he served shall not be sufficient cause of rejection. Neither | shall the fact of having done service in | the home guard or State reserve or State | militia of any other State than Alabama entitle an applicant to relief under this | act.
 | Approved March 1, 1%1.
 (Oficial) ROBERT P. McDAVID,
 Secretary of State. No 731 AN ACT H. 27 To protect labels adopted by labor unions
 from commercials of such labels and to
 punish the unlawful use of such labels Be 1t enacted by the General Assembly
 of Alabama.
 Section l. That whenever any union ol association of workingmen shall adopt and use and shall file in the office of the Secretary of State, as hereinafter pro- vided. any label or device for the purpose of designating and distinguishing any goods, wares or merchandise or other product of labor as having been made manufactured, produced or prepared by such association or union of working men or by a member or members of suct association or union, 1t shall be unlawful for any person to counterfeit or initiate such label or device or to alter such coun terfeit or imitation or to attach such labe thereof, to any goods, wares, merchandise or other product of labor without the consent of such association or union, and any person who commercials or initiates such label or device or alters such coun- terfeit or attaches such label or device or any counterfeit or imitation thereof to any goods wares or merchandise ol other product of labor without the con-