The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-04-30
THE PENSION ROLL.
Checks for Pension Fund Distribu.
tion Signed.-Nearly Quarter
Of Million Dollars for Dis
tribution this Year to
Civil War Pen
sioners.

for the pension fund distribution, the |
checks being sent to the clerks of
court in the various counties for dis
tribution of the funds as allowed by
the pension boards. The work Of
calculating the amount due each
county and each pcnstoner is tre-
mcndous task, which is carefully per-
formed by Miss Kate Mahcr, the pen
sion clerk in the Comptroller Gen
erals office.
The General Assembly at the re-
cent session appropriated $250,0OO
$4,000 more than any previous ap-
preparation, and of this sum it was
provided that $1,000 should be ex-
pended for artificial limbs for those
Veterans who had lost limb in the
service. There have been number
of applications granted for these ar
tifcial limbs and the appropriation
is not vet exhausted.
The refunds from last years app
preparation amounted to $2,378.S6,
"nlcu Ilutlc llt lttUl ullloulll o' NlA
able this year $252,37S.S6. In addi-
ton to the artificial limb fund Of
IS 900 there is deducted the expenses
of county boards, pension commits
sioners, salary Of clerk, stationery
and printing and back pensions,
amounting to $3,623G6, leaving
available for pensions this year the
sum of $243, 1920, which has been
apportioned among the 9,015 Con-
fedcute Veterans and widows Of
Confederate soldiers, who are grant
ed the right to draw this money from
the state treasury. The pension list
! is by law divided into classes, as
| follows:
Class A-Thosc soldiers or sailors
who are physically disabled by reason
of wounds, losing both arms or both
legs, or suffering paralysis as re-
suit Of wounds, and whose income or
the income of whose wife does not
exceed $3.50 per annum.
Class B-Those who lost ONE arm
or one leg and whose income or whose
wife's income does nor exceed $3.50
per annum.
Glass C, No 1-Those disabled by
wounds during the war, whose income
does not exceed or whose wife's III
come does not exceed $3.50.
Glass C. No 2-Those who have
reached the age of GO years and whose
income or whose wife's income does
not exceed %75 per annum.
Glass c., No. 3-Widows of those
who lost their lives in the service
whose income docs not exceed 500
per annum.
Class G. No. 4-Widows above the
age of 60 years whose income does
not exceed 800 pc, annum.
Under the law and the methods of
distribution this year the classes
named above will receive the follow
ing sums: Class a. 500; Glass B.,
$72; Glass G.. No. l, $48; Glass G..
No. 2, $21.07, Class G., No. 3, $4S:
Class G.. No. 4, S21.07. The number
Of pensioners in the different clas-
ses on the roll a" present is as fol-
lows: Glass A. 101; Glass B, 1873 :;
Glass G, No. I, 626; Class G, No. 2,
4,007; Glass G, No. 3, 745; Glass G..
No. 4, 3,353-malsing a total Of 9,O15.
This is an increase Of 72 over last
year. In some counties there is an
increase Of the amount paid, though
decrease in the number Of pension
crs, but this is accounted for by the
fact that the decrease is in the lower
classes and there is an increase in
the higher classes, which receive the
larger amounts.
The largest amount goes to Spar
tanburg county, which draws $780,
G70,2S; Grccnvillc gets $13,439.39;
! Anderson, $14,603.70; Richland, 49,
O12.20; Aiken $S,584.11. Many of the
old soldiers and their widows are
congrcgatcd in the mill towns in the
Piedmont and the middle counties,
and the amount paid for pensions
does not, therefore, indicate anything
as to the number of soldiers. sent to
} the war from each county.
81. The amount as given By counties is
d.