The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-08-25
SiAIUO UF PEHSIUn LAWS
ORDINANCES WILL GET 81 90 FOR
EACH PENsIONER ON ROLLS.
County Will Pay 1t For Those ON In
digent Roll. Other Pensioners
Must Pay 1t Themselves.

"SCh1 ANoh' OtleF pensioners
Must Pay 1t Themselves.
Ordinary w. B. Cheatham has re-
ceived from Pension Commissioner
~. w. Lindsey since the adjournment
of the legislature letter explaining
the present status of pension laws in
Georgia.
Hereafter the ordinance of the
state will receive $1OO per pensioner
for this work. For the INDECENT pen
sioners this will be paid out of the
county treasurer, but the pensions in
other class will have to pay the Or
dlnarles the $1.00 out of the money
they receive from the state.
Pensions under the law passed at
the 1908 session of the legislature.
and which was voted upon bv the
people of the state and ratified last
year, will not go into effect this
year, as the bill carried with it an
appropriation, and the state legisla-
ture at the session which has Just
ended failed to make the appropria-
ton. The bill was tabled on the last
day of the session in a committee
room of the senate, and it was inn
possible for the senate to take up
the appropriation, which had already
been passed by the house.
On account of the failure of the
senate to pass the appropriation
there will be no pensions paid under
the new act, and the state pension
commissioner has sent the following
letter to the Ordinaries of the state,
so the pensioners can see why they
will not get the pensions they have
applied for:
Pension Office, Atlanta, Ca, Au-
gust IL, 1909.-Dear Judge: l
hasten to advise you at the earlist
possible moment after the adjourn
ment of the general assembly of the
status OF the legislation presented
affecting the pension laws.
The bill regulating and fixing the
fees of Ordinances for their pension
work passed. 1t allows a fee of
$1.00 annually for each pensioner
on the rolls. Those on the INDECENT
rolls are to be paid by the county
out of the pauper fund; Inose on
the disabled and first-class widows
rolls are to be paid out of their an
nual pension.
The bill that passed the house of
representatives by vote of 1923 to
Z to put in force the new constitu-
tional amendment that provides
| pension for all confederate soldiers
and widows of soldiers who were
married prior to the first of jan
uary, 1870, not worth over fifteen
hundred dollars, was at a late hour
on Tuesday night tabled in the ap-
preparation committee of the senate,
thereby refusing to report the bill
! back to the senate that it might be
! read the second time and go on the
calendar for its passage on the last
! day of the session. This action of
the committee carries the bill over
as unfinished business to the session
of 1910. I am sure the bill would
have passed in the senate had it come
to a vote
Therefore, no change has been
made that affects the present pension
laws. You can use the blanks as
heretofore, and if you have none or
der your supply at once, that all
who desire to apply for a pension
under the present law may make
and file their applications in this
office before October list next. Yours
respectfully, J. w. LINDSEY,
COmOicciOnor of Dopciopc