The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-18

 90 days after it's approval.
 Approved February IS, 1915.
 official:
 JOHN PURIFOY.
 Secretary of State.
 No. 1o7) AN ACT tH. 7os To provide for the reinstatement CT Confederate pensioners whose names have been stricken from the pen
 sion rolls of this state
 Be it enacted by the legislature or Alabama:
 Section l. When the county board of pensions shall meet at the court house of their respective counties July. next, they shall give 10 days notice by advertising in a newspaper pub l1shed in the counties of said meet ing. Said notice shall inform all per- sioners who have been stricken from the pension roll of the state that they or their witnesses may appear before said pension board and show cause why they should be reinstated on said pension roll and placed In the class from which they were stricken.
 Sec. Z. If after hearing the proof of said pensioner and his witnesses they are convinced that any person so applying for reinstatement on the pen- sion roll has been unjustly stricken from the pension roll, they shall re- duce said hearing to writing, to be | aminers at their next meeting.
 Sec 8. The state board of exam iners shall receive such application from the auditor and examine carefully and separately each application for re- instatement on the pension roil from which they have been stricken, and the evidence of one witness who was a Confederate soldier and who makes affidavit to the fact that said appli- cant for reinstatement did serve in the Confederate army or the state troops of Alabama in accordance with the requirements of section 2007 of the code of 1907, together with the evi- dence of two reliable citizens of the precinct in which said pensioner re- sides, who must state under oath that said applicant is a reliable and truth full person. and who from their knowl- edge of such person would not make a false statement for the purpose of securing "a pension. Then 1t becomes the duty of the state board of pen- sions to have placed on the pension roll the name of said pensioner and in the class from which said pensioner was stricken. Provided, that when an applicant heretofore on the Confcder- ete pension rolls makes affidavit that he enlisted in the service of and did not desert the Confectionery, and that he knows of no available witness or witnesses to such fact, such affidavit shall be presumptive evidence of tho applicants right to the pension pro- sided for by the laws of Alabama un- less disproved; and an affidavit by the widow of a deceased soldier or sailor who has ever drawn Confederate pension and who is over 45 years old that she is informed and believes that her husband, enlisted in and did not desert the Confectionery, shall have the same effect as the affidavit herein provided to be made by soldiers and sailors of the Confectionery And all persons reinstated as pensioners shall also be paid such sum or sums as they would have received if they had not been dropped from the pension rolls of Alabama.
 Sec. A. All soldiers or widows of soldiers who make application fer Confederate pension after the enact ment of this bill the same shall bs entitled to the measures provided by this bill.
 Approved February 19, 1915. Official:
 JOHN PURIFOY,
 Secretary of State