The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-02
ANNUAL PENSION
MONEYD|SBURSED.
Payment to $4,000 Veterans and
Widows Begun by State
Atlditor.t
WORK WILL TAKE a MONTH
Total of S3s5,ooo to Be Paid
Pensioners by Grateful
Commonwealth.
WORK WILL TAKE a MONTH

With between $1,000 and 10000 pen-
sioners on the rolls. Pension Clerk u.
l.. G. Scott, of the office of The Auditor
Of Public Accounts yesterday began
the annual distribution of state PEN
sion money to the soldiers OF the Con-
| federacy and to the widows. This
work viii consume probably thirty
days
/ There is enough money to nav All
the claimants. Last year the appropry
alton fell short about $4,000. and THIS
amount was made up lby special
| emergency appropriation in the Legis-
iatufe. The sum of pension money
was increased to s475.000 for this
year, and of this about y3S5.0OO Will
be distributed this month. Tire re-
mainder of 100000 was spent In the
June distribution, which comes under 4,
later act
The money now being paid is un-
der the acts of 1900 and 1902. Tire
checks are for the year beginning
September l, 1910, and ending Septem,
Der 1, 1911.
Pay Alphabetically.
All pensioners are urged to he pa
tient, since there is a limit to the ca
pacity of the office force. From 500
, ~ WV ShSNhS VIII Dt lIldileu sNeES ufy.
The State will be taken alphabetically,
beginning with Accomac county. aud
running down through the list Of 100
counties and eighteen cities.
Complete provision was made this
year for those who fought to protect
their State. and for the widows of the
soldiers of the South.
Virginia pays pensions as follows:
Class A-To every person who has
t,s-r ~. ,,,,N t,,,.,
hands. or a hand and a foot by reason
of wounds received, or surgical opera
! ton therefor while in the discharge
of his duty as a solder. sailor or ma
the States, and any such as have be-
come totally blind By disease. the sum
of $3.50 per annum.
Class BIO every person who has
lost an arm, or leg. or a foot. or a
hand, in the discharge of his duty as
soldier, sailoar or marine of Vir-
sinia in the said war, the sum of ss5
! per annum.
Glass c-To every person who is dis
abled by wounds received or surgical
/ operation therefor. while in the dis
charge of his duty as q soldier sailor
or marine or Virginia in the said war,
or Is disabled by disease. If such dis
ability be proven to be total the sum
Of Sa6 per annum., and, If such dIsa-
! Utility be proven TO be partial the sum
of s2+ per annum.
Age Pensions.
Glass D-To every person over the
| age of sixty-tive. who was loyal and
| true as a soldier. sailor or marine OF
Virginia during the said war. and WHO
| by reason of the infrmities of age has
become disabled and incapable of earn.
! ing livelihood. IL such disability be
/ proven to be total, the sum OF $50 per
annum. and If such disability be prov
en- to be partial. the sum of s2i per
annun.
! Glass E-To every widow. remaining
I; unmarried, or any soldier sailor or
/ marine of Virginia, whose husband los,
| his life while in the discharge of his
duty in the military or naval service
! of Virginia during the said war, who
1 Is now a widow. although she may
| have married again, the sum OF $40 per
| annum
Class F-To every widow Of any sol
der sailor or marine Of Virginia.
1 whose husband was loyal and true IN
| the military or naval service of Nir-
! ginia during the said war, and has
since died, who Is now widow. al
though she may have married again
1.-THE sum of SIS per annum.