Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-12-30
1909 PENSION RULES.
Rules for the Guidance OF Commits
sioners as Laid Down by Act.
Colnmbia. s. a.. 1ans

OF their number County Pension
Commissioner.
The Pension Commissioner of each
cousty will attend in the County
Auditors office on each Saturday in
January, 1909. This commissioner
Is charged with the duty of prepar-
ing all pension papers in a condition
to go before the Couutv Board
| (Which County Board meets on the
first Monday in February. The
Pension Commissioner Is cautioned
to use in each instance the proper
blank for the application.
Immediately after the adjourn
ment of the county board (the first
Monday in March, 1909,) the Pen
sion Commissioners will proceed to
prepare the list as follows: Use the
] Pension Report for pensioners of
1901, 1902, 1908, 1904, 1905, 1906,
! 1907 and 1908, marking off those
dead, removed from the State, trans
ferred to another county, or dropped,
giving reason. Then make list Of
all the approved pensioners for 1909
only.
If 1t Is proposed to raise any pen
| sioner from the class in which his
| name is now enrolled, it will be
| necessary to prepare q new applica-
| ton, setting forth the fac is. and If
approved by the County Pension
| Board send the same to the State
Pension Board. In no instance must
he send an application for person
| who Is already on the roll, except
where 1T Is proposed to raise said ap-
plicant to a higher class, and then
the application must so state.
Transfers.
A suitable blank will be furnished
him, on which he can certify to other
commissioners and county boards
that the party desiring to so to ano-
| ther county is regularly on the pen
! sion list in his county. We do not
want approved applications to come
| here from any county where the ap-
plicant is an approved pensioner in
some other county.
County Pension Boards.
The County Pension Boards elect
ed this year under the pension law
shall meet during this year, and elect
one of their number County Pension
Commissioner, whoe shall perform the
duties prescribed in the act approved
February 25, 1902.
The County Pension Boards are in
| structed instead Of meeting in Janu-
airy, 1909, to meet the first Monday
in February, A909, and pass on all
the applications prepared and sub
mitted to them by the Pension Com
missioner, approving or disapprov-
ing the same. They will meet again
| the first Monday in March, 1909, at
| which time they will examine and
| verify the list submitted to them by
| the Pension Commissioner, and sign
and Immediately forward tie same
to the Comptroller General. The;
are instructed to give due notice Of
the manner in which applications
must be made under the law, as the
State Pension Board will not con-
slider applications for pensions ex-
cept where they come in the ~egu-
lar way and time prescribed by law
| Do not send to this office disap-
proved applications for pension.
BY act approved oath day Of Feb
ruary, 1906-see Section 1OS5-a
pensioner Is allowed to certify as a
witness.
Glass A. Those who as a result of
wounds received in the war are
physically helpless, or who while In
such service lost both arms, or both
legs, or are totally blind whether
the result of service or not, or who
are disaf I'd by paralysis and are
unable to make a living, and whose
] income or his wife's does not ex-
ceed $3.50. This does not include
soldiers whose disabilities arise from
diseases and causes arising since the
war, except those totally blind.
Glass B. Those who have lost one
arm or one leg and whose income or
his wife's does not exceed $50.
Glass G, No. 1. Those soldiers and
sailors disabled by wounds received
during the war, whose income or his
wife's does not exceed SIS.
Glass G, No. 2. Those soldiers
whose income does not exceed SIS
irrespective of age.
Glass c, No. 3. Widows of those
who lost their lives while in the
service Of the State or Confederate
States, and whose income does not