The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-27
WRITES OF PENSIONS
AUDITOR CARMICHAEL SENDS LEFT
 TIERS TO COUNTY BOARDS.
Information and the Law Governing Changes of Residence By Pen- sioners Are Set Out Al
 Length.


 Considerable difficulty has been ex7 perienced recently by the State Audit ing Department in handling pensions of old soldiers who change their resi- dence from on@ county to anotheri Covering this point. and several othI CT matters which have been brought to his attention, State Auditor J. MI Carmichael yesterday sent the follow1 Ing letter to the various County Boards of Pension Examiners in Alabama; gro the County Board of Pension Elk
 aminerss
 "Gentiemen--A number of requestd having come to this office in regard to the proper steps to be taken when a pensioner desires to be changed from one county to another: and there be- ing no law covering this point. l sus : gest, that inasmuch as the original applications to be placed on the roll are made to the county boards, that the application to be transferred should be made to the same board. and that they take such recommendations In regard to the same to the State Board, as they may see proper.
 sT further suggest that when an old soldier dies that you notify his widow that in order that her name may be put on the roll, she must make application to your board as required by law.
 .'Ycu will confer a favor on both this ofice and the pensioner if you will have the names to he stricken from the roll. and the names to be put on, plainly written. or .typewritten, as in some cases the deliverey of the warrant has been deinyed because the names could not be read,
 'I call attention to Section IS of the pension law in regard to the revIs- ion of the roll and suggest that the names of all persons be put on the that the names of all persons be stricken off who ara not entitled to be on it under the law.
 Yours truly,
 "J. M. Carmichael"
 The section of the pension law re- ferred to in Auditor Carmichael's let ter Is as follows:
 "Section 1S-Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama. that section nine of an act entitled an act for the relief of needy Confederate soldiers and sailors. resident citizens of Ala bama, and their widows. Approved March 14th. 1901, be and the same hereby is amended so as to read as follows
 "section s.-Be 1t further enacted. That it shall be the duty of the Coun- " OI HI E0Ih SNGl to revise the pension roll of their respective counties, and if upon care full investigation 1t shall appear to them tha4 any pensioner whose namt stands on the roll is in any way H. legally drawing a pension, the name of such pensioner, together with the name of any pensioner who has died or re- moved from the state. shall be sent to the State Board of Examiners with that tha mama Of such pensioner be erased from the pension roll. If upon receipt of such information by the State Board Of Examiners 1t should appear to them that any erasures should be made from the roll. 1t shall be their duty to so notify the Auditor whose duty 1t shall be to so notify the judge or probate. and no warrant shall there after be ssued to any pensoiner whose name the State Board of Ex- aminers shall decide should be erased from the. pension roll
 Provided, That should a pensioner die after the office of the County Board of Examiners has been closed and prior to the issuance of the war rant, and the name of the widow of such pensioner has not been placed upon the pension roll for the same year the judge of probate shall deliver the warrant to the widow or minor child or children of such deceased pen sioner. and should there be no widow or miner child of such de- ceased PensionSsF sSs, tbSorse t6s iudgs sns collect the warrant and attach them to his certificate showing the facts upon which he is herein authorized to so endorse and collect the warrant, and the proceeds thereof he shall ap- ply first to the payment of the bur ial expenses; second, to the expense of the last illness of such pension