Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-05-01
CHECKS FOR PENSION FUND
DIS, aIBUTI0N tSIGNEr.--NEARLY A QUAR-.
TER OF A MILLION DOLLARS.


TER OF A MILLION DOLLARS.
Columbia, April il27.-Comptroller Gen,
eral Jones to-day signed the checks for
the pension fund distribution, the checks
being sent to the Clerks of Court in the
various counties for distribution of the
funds as allowed by the pension boards.
The work Of calculating the amount due
each county and each pensioner is a tre-
mendOus task, which is carefully per-
formed by Miss Kate Maher, the pension
clerk in the Comptroller Generals office.
Tho General Assembly at the recent
session appropriated $250,O00 for Con-
federate pensions, which is $25, 900 more
than any previous appropriation, and
of this sum 1t was provided that 5000
should be expended for artificial limbs
for those vetersns who had loaf limb in
the service. There have been number
Of applications granted for these artifi.
SiAl limbs and tho appropriation is not
yet exhausted.
The refunds from last years appropri-
alton amounted to $2,378 50, which made
tho total amount available this year
$252, ,37S.S6. In addition to the artificial
limb fund of 5000 there is deducted the
expenses of county boards, pensions
commissioners, salary Of, clerk, station.
cry and printing and hack pensions,
amounting to $3,823 86, leaving available
for pensions this year the sum of $243,-
1920, which has been apportioned
among the 9,015 Confederate veterans
and widows of Confederate soldiers, who
are granted the right TO draw this money
from the State Treasury. The pension
list is by law divided into classes, as fol-
lows:
Glass A-Those soldiers or sailors who
are physically disabled by reason of
wounds, losing both arms or both legs,
or suffering paralysis as result of
wounds, and whose income or the in
come 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 not exceed $3.50 per
annum.
Class c, No. 1-Those disabled by
wounds during the war, whose income
does not exceed or whose wife's income
does not exceed $50.
Glass G, No. 2-Those who have
reached the age of 60 years and whose
income or whose wife's income does not
exceed S75 per annum,
Glass G, No. 3-Widows of those who
lost their lives in the service whose in
come does not exceed 500 per annum.
Glass G, No. 4-Widows above tho age
of 60 years whose income does not ex-
ceed 500 per annum.
Under the law and the methods of dis
tribution this year the classes named
above will receive the following sums :
Glass A, 500; Class b, $72; Class q, No.
l, S4S; Class c, No. 2, S21.07; Class G,
No. 3, S4S; Glass G, No. 4, S2l.O7. The
number of pensioners in the different
classes on the roll at present is as follows
Class A, 1Ol; Class B, 1888; Glass c, No.
l, 628; Class G, No. 2, 4,907; Class C, No.
3, 745; Class c, No. 4, 3,353-making a
total of 9,Ol5. This 10 an increase of 72
over last year. In some counties there
is an increase of the amount paid, though
decrease in the number of pensioners,
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 Spartan
burg county, which draws $2O,67O.2S;
Greenville gets s13.439.39; Anderson,
sl4, 4,603.79; OoOnee, $7,982.O5; Pickens,
S6,596.42. Many of the old soldiers and
their widows are congregated in the
mill towns in the Piedmont and the mid
die 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.