Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-04-18
THE NEW PENSION LAW.
Provisions for Expenditure Of the Large
Appropriation.

For the expenditure of the $500, O0C
appropriated at the recent session OF
the Legislature for pensions to ex-
COnfederates and widows of Exon
federateS, the bill makes these provis-
Ions:
| The amounts specified for the vari-
GUS classes of pensioners are to be paid
annually upon warrants of the Audi
tor of Public Accounts. The applicants
must be citizens and bona fide residents
of the State of Virginia and must
have resided therein for two years and
in the county or city from which the
application is made for one year.
Proofs of claims and assertions are e
quired. The pensions for the various
classes are:
A-FOr loss of both eyes, both feet
or both hands by reason of wounds re
ce1ved or surgical operation therefor,
while in the discharge of duty as SOL
dier, sailor or marine of Virginia, 800
annually.
BAFor loss of an arm, leg, foot or
hand while discharging duty as sol
dier, sailor or marine in the war, $50
annually.
| C-To every person disabled by
wounds, or surgery thereafter. ii such
disability be total, $50 per annum; if
only partial, SIS per annum.
| Do every person IS years of age,
| loyal and true as soldier, sailor or
marine of Virginia during the Civil
| War, and who by reason of the infrmi-
ties of age has become disabled and
| incapable of earning a livelihood, if
disability be total. $50 yer year; if only
partial, SIS pear year.
| E-TO the widow of soldier, sailor
or marine. who has remained unmar-
ried since her husbands death in the
service. $40.
F-TO the widow of loyal Confed-
crate soldier or sailor, who has died
since the war as result of wounds or
| from chronic disease contracted in the
service, such widow having no means
of support, $25 annually.
This act applies to every native of
Virginia and to the widows of such as
are dead who enlisted from this or any
| other State in the service of the Con-
federacy, and who is at the date of ap-
plicatiOn a citizen and actual resident
of the State of Virginia. Those ex-
| cluded from the benefits prescribed are:
Those who have an income of $3.50
yearly from any source, or who owns
or is the beneficiary of property to the
value of $500, as assessed; pensioners
OF other States, inmates of soldiers
homes or other public Institutions.
The conditions ofrecelving pension
under this act are: Applicants must
lille their applications with the clerk of
| the Circuit, Corporation or Hastings
Court of the city or county wherein he
or she may reside at least twenty DAYS
before any regular term of such court.
Tbe same must be subscribed and
sworn to, and accompanied by the af-
fidavits of two disiDterested witnesses,
residents of the city or county wherein
the applicant resides; also by the ap-
pllcatiOnS of at least two comrades at
arms of the soldier or sailor, if there
be two such comrades living; also the
certificate or some reputable ply sieian;
or case of widows application, of the
physician attending the husband at
the time of death, if the physician be
living; also the certificate of some camp
of Confederate Veterans, or of two
Confederate soldiers residing in said
city or county; also the certificate of
the Commissioner of the Revenue as
to the property owned by the applicant.
The form of the affidavits are pro-
vided by the act for every contingency
and for each Of the various classes SO
required to attest the application. A
board of three commissioners is pro-
vided for in each city or county, who
shall examine the merits of all applica-
tions. Provision is made for perma-
nent records in the Auditors office,
wherein the pensioners are arranged
by cities or counties.