Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1902-04-25
NEW PENSION LAW.

TUT tue expenditure of the $780,.
GOO appropriated at the recent session
OF the Legislature for pensions to ex-
Confederates and widows of ex-Con.
federates,s the bill makes these pro.
visions:
The amounts specified for the vari.
Gus classes of pensioners are to be
paid annually upon the warrants of
the Auditor Of Public Accounts.
The applicants must be citizens and
bona fide residents of the State of
Virginia and must have resided there.
In Tor 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
pensions for the various classes are:
A-For loss of both eyes, both feet
or both hands by reason of wounds
received or surgical operation there
for, while in the discharge of duty
as soldier, sailor or marine of Vir-
ginia, 800 annually.
B-For loss of an arm, leg, foot
or hand while discharging duty as
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, SIS per annum.
DO every person IS years of
age, loyal aud true as soldier, sailor
or marine of Virginia during the
Civil War, and who by reason of the
iniirmities of age has become disabled
and incapable of earning livelihood.
II disability be total, $50 per year; if
only partial, $l5 per year.
E-To the widow of soldier,
sailor or marine, who has remained
unmarried since her husbands death
in the service, $40.
F-To the widow Of loyal Con.
federate soldier or sailor, who has
died since the war as result of
wounds or from chronic disease con-
tracted- in the service, such widow
having no means Of support, $25
annually.
This act applies 80 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 citizen aud actual
r6osssH excluded Sqtfat|fa Sqtfat|fa q, qaff,e Virginia:
prescribed are: Those who have an
income of $3.50 yearly from any
source, or who owns or is the beue-
ficiary of property to the value of
$500, as assessed pensioners of other
States, inmates of soldiers homes or
other public institutions.
The conditions of receiving pen
sion under this act are: Applicants
must file 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. The same must be
subscribed and sworn to, and accom-
panied by afiidavits Of two dis
interested witnesses, residents of the
city or county wherein the applicant
resides; also by the applications 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 dow'sapplication, of the ply
sician 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 ex-Oonfederate soldiers residing
III said city or county; also the GER
tiicate of the Commissioners Of Rev.
enue as to the property owned by The
applicant.
: The form of the atiidayits are pro-
vided by the act of every contingency
and Tor each of the various classes
so required to attest the application.
A board of three commissioners is
provided for in each city or county,
who shall examine the merits of all
applications. Provision is made for
permanent records in the Auditors
office, wherein the pensioners are
arranged by cities or counties.-
Dispatch.
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