The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-08-24
PENSIONS HIGH TIDE
ROLL WILL HARDLY INCREASE IN
THE FUTURE.
State Board Only Added $50 Names to
the ROll-Over Thousand
Names Were Stricken.

The high tide of pensions In Ala
bama has probably been reached. The
result of the annual meeting of the
State Board of Pension Examiners
which has Just completed its work at
the Capitol shows that but a slight ad-
EDITION will be made to the list of Con-
federate pensioners in the State. In
the year to come there will in all prob
ability be a decrease instead Of an in
crease.
As a result of the work of the State
Pension Board. a net addition Of only
$50 names were added to the pension
rolls. This is only a per cent of the
heavy increase of other years. The
act Of the last Legislature providing
a way for purging the pension rolls
was responsible for the small increase
Heretofore there was no way of strik-
ing from the roll the names Of those
who should no longer be upon them.
Under the new pension law the county
pension officials recommended to the
State Board the names that should be
stricken from the rolls.
Acting upon these recommendations
the State Board struck OF 1,243 names,
nearly all Of whom were the names of
pensioners who had died. The county
boards sent up to the State Board a
total Of 1873 who were recommended
for pensions. OF this number the State
Board approved 1898 and rejected 295.
This gave a net increase $50 to the
roll.
It cannot be told at this time what
each pensioner will receive The In
come from the special soldier tax will
have to be returned to the State Treas
urer before II will be apportioned
among the pensioners. 1t Is possible
al ~ .lf <~t,t t,,D~
last years amount. The tax rate Is
tho same but there has been an in
crease in assessment in the State and
1t is possible that this increase will be
more than enough to Offset the small
increase in the total number of PEN
sioners.
The special appropriation OF $780,
900 to pension fund under the terms of
the act will not be available until next
year.
Messrs. J. N. Thompson. p. B. Mas
tin and J. r. Horn, composing the
State Board. have completed their Ia
State Auditor. Their report in full Is
as follows:
To Hon. Thomas L. SowelI. Auditor
State Of Alabama:
Dear Strive respectfully submit the
following report as the State Board of
Examiners Of Confederate Pensions:
Under the pension law, as amended
by the Legislature of Alabama, at It's
last session. making It part of the
duty of county boards of pension ex-
aminers throughout the State to revise
the pension rolls of their respective
counties, we find that the results as
obtained from them are as follows, in
the various counties. commencing with
Autauga and extending alphabetically
through the whole State, with the ex-
ception of Washington. from which
there is no report, as shown by exhibits
herewith attached.
We have examined 1918 applications
of which we approved 1879 and rejected
295. We have examined the reports
sent to us by the Probate Judges and
county examiners. and have recon-
mended to be stricken from the rolls
1,243 names for the various reasons
set forth in their reports.
Respectfully submitted.
J. N. Thompson,
President.
p. B. Mastin,
J. r. Horn. NJ. D.,