Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1902-04-25
The New Pension Law.


session of the Legislature for the
expenditure of 100000 for pen
sions to Confederate Soldiers and
widows of such has not been sent
out in the Acts of the Assembly as
yet. For the information of those
interested the bill makes these
provisions:
The amounts specified for the
various classes of pensioners are
to be paid annually upon the war
rants of the Auditor of Public Ac-
counts. These 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 required. The pen
sions for the various classes are
A-FOr loss of both eyes, both
feet, or both hands by reason of
wounds received or surgical opera
ton therefor, while in the dis
charge of duty as soldier, sailor or
marine of Virginia, 500 annually.
B-For loss of an arm, leg, foot
or hand while discharging duty as
a soldier, sailor or marine in the
war, $50 annually.
C-To every person disabled by
wounds, or surgery thereafter, if
such disability be total, $50 per
annum; if only partial, $15 per
annum.
D-To every person IS years of
age, loyal and true as a soldier,
sailor or marine of Virginia during
the Civil War, and who by reason
of the infrmities of age has be-
come disabled and incapable of
earning a livelihood, if disability
be total, $50 per year; if only
partial, SIS per year.
E-To the widow of soldier,
sailor or marine, who has remained
unmarried since her husbands
death in the service, $40. per year.
F-To the widow of loyal Con-
federate soldier or sailor, who has
died since the war as a result of
wounds or from chronic disease
contracted in the service, such
widow having no means of sup
port, $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 Confederacy, and
who is at the date of application
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
to the value of $500, as
assessed pensioners of otherStates,
inmates of soldiers homes or other
public institutions.
The conditions Of receiving a
pension under this act are: APP
plicants must file their applica-
tiOns 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. The same must be
subscribed and sworn to, and ac-
companied by the affidavitS of at
least two comrades-in-arms of the
soldier or sailor, if there be two
such comrades living; also the
certificate of some reputable
physician; or case of a widows
application, of the physician at
the husband at the time of
Death, if the physician be living;
also the certificate of some camp
IF Confederate Veterans, or of two
.x-C Confederate soldiers residing in
said city or county; also the GER
.ificate of the Commissioner of
Revenue as to the property owned
by the applicant.
The form of the affidavits are
provided by the act for every con-
urgency and for each of the
,arious classes so required to at
end the application. A board of