The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-26
PENSIONS DECREASING
STATE BOARD HAS compLErEp ITS
 REPORT.
Many NameS Have Heen stricIEen from the Roll of Alabama Veterans Montgomery County Wail
 Receive 1A.

There will be sss fewer old soldiers
 Tn Alabama to receive pensions during
 the fiscal year of 1s0e-l906 than are at
 present on the rolls and the pension-
 CTS In all will amount to 15.1ss. as
 shown by the report of the State Board
 of Pension Examiners to the State
 Auditor which was made public yes-
 terday
 As predicted by The Advertiser . few days ago. there was heavy cancel-
 iatfon of the County pension rolls by
 the Examiners who ordered no fewer
 than LAST names stricken from the
 lists for various reasons of disqualiK~ cation.
 The state Board acted Non an even 1.100 applications for pensions from the gfxty-seven counties of the State
 but rejected 421 and granted only ITS.
 On account of the cancellation of f.1eT names on the old list, therefore, a dif- ference has resulted Of sss soldiers less than drew money at the beginning of this year
 The clerks in the Auditors once are now busy putting the classes of the pensioners on the books Of the classes there are four being designated first. second, third and fourth. The State Examiners did the work of classifica- tion while in session here last week and as soon as the figures are Bfraight@ ened out in the Auditors cffice the number of old soldiers in each class will be given out. Last year there were l3S in the first class. receiving S4B .45 each; f4e in the second, receiv- ing sa5.75 each; i72 fn the third. re- cefving sSo.2o, and i5,o75 drawing e22.e5.
 The total disbursements to the pen- sioners during the current fiscal year --referred to as last year as 1t Is about to expfre--were $S5s. 199 .60. including an appropriation of s50.0o0 and the old soldiers tax levied by the State. It is not known yet what the pro rata share of each pensioner will be in October next. There will be fewer names on the roll. as already indicated. and from the taxes they will get an in- tribution of the fund. The divisions will be properly made in time to pre- vent any delay in the disbursements, AS the Auditor has received the re- port in full from the State Board of Examiners they may be said to have labors last Saturday but did not ad- journ until their figures were verified when gone over by the clerks in the AudItoF's offlce. The members of the Board are F. s. Starr. Dr. R. D. Jackson and R. J. Reynolds. The number of new names ordered placed on the various County pension rolis is as follows.
 Autauga, 5: Baldwin, (: Barbour. 10; Bibb. 10: Blount.s 15 Butler. IT; Cal~ hOun. IS; Chambers. IS; Cherokee. Ie; Chiffon. 12; Choctaw. '; Clarke, IS: Clay, I: Cleburne. 6; Coffee, t4; Colbert. 6: Conecuh, 4: Coosa, 9; Covington, ii: Crenshaw. I4; Cullman. 14; Dale. 10s Dallas. (; DeRalb. 24: Fillmore, 12; Es~ cambia, 10; Etowah. 27; Fayette. IS; Franklin. Q; Geneva, l2; Greene. 8; Hale. 6; Henry. ii: Houston, 14: Jack- son, 2s; Jefferson. 37; Lamar. 8. Lau-
 derdaie, g: Lawrence. 6; Lee. IS, Lime
 stone, 9; Lowndes, 4 Macon. 1; Madi- son. 25: Marengo. 5; Marion. g.; Mar shall. II; Mobile, ls; Monroe. {; Mont gomery, i4; Morgan, 14; Perry. Ss Pickens, [; Pike. 1s: Randolph. 1s; Rus- sell, [; Shelby, 2s; St. Clair. H. Sum- ter, 10; Talladega, 9; Tailapoosa. i6; Tuscaloosa. s9; Walker. 20; Washing ton, {; Wilcox. {. and Winston. {. The Auditor will begin sending out the pension warrants in October.