The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-23


 her property does not exceed 5000. She shall also file with the probate judge a complete inventory of all the property,
 both real . and personal that she owns. which application must be sworn to by the applicant before any officer author ized by law to administer oaths.
 Sec. s. The widow of any Confederate soldier or sailor who is or was on the
 pension roll at the time of his death shall be placed on the pension record and shall become entitled to the amount of money allowed by law to the widows of Confederate soldiers or sailors, upon formal application to the probate judge
 and satisfactory proof that she is the widow of such Confederate soldier or | sailor, and has not remarried since the death of her husband. and such appli- cation and proof must be forwarded to the pension commissioners for considera- tion as other applications.
 Sec. All applications filed with the probate judge shall be immediately for warded by him, together with all papers or evidence pertaining thereto. to the pension board at the state capitol, for their immediate and careful considera- tion. For such services the judge of probate shall receive 50 cents for each
 application, provided that he shall not receive compensation for more than one
 application for any applicant in any one year, which amount shall be paid out of the county treasury. Sec. 10. All beneficiaries under this chapter whether soldiers or sailors. who are over 80 years of age. or totally blind, or who have lost two limbs, or the en- tire use thereof, shall be classed No. 1. Those who have lost a leg or foot or arm or hand or the entire use thereof, or are over 10 years of age, shall be classed as No. 2. All others who are entitled to pension under this article shall be classed No. 3. The pension com missioners shall upon application prop erly certified and proved transfer ap- plicant from any of the lower classes to a higher class when after examination they find his or her increased disabili- ties of age entities them to such trans fer. Each class shall participate in the division of the pension fund in the pro portion hereinafter provided The pen sior commissioners shall from time to time readjust and reclassify the bene- ficiaries under this act whenever the same | should be done by reason of the advanc- ing age of the beneficiaries without formal arplica ton being made therefor
 Sec. Il. Proof of the age prescribed in section 10 of this act may be at any time, by the affidavit of the applicant or of any competent witness taken before, and certified by an officer authorized to take and certify affidavts, and when so made, such proof shall be immediately filed with the probate judge, in which county such applicant lives who shall forward the same without delay to the pension commission, who shall forthwith consider such proof in connection with the records in the pension commission S office and place such name on the pension roll in the class to which it belongs, pro- vided the pension commission is satisfied such proof is true.
 Sec. 12 The state auditor shall have prepared records to be used as a perma- nent state record of pensions in which he shall have recorded in alphabetical order according to counties. the names of all the pensioners. together with a suitable column in which shall be prompt ly entered the date of death, other cause for the discontinuance of pension. Such record shall be kept up to date by the prompt entry thereon of all new names admitted to the pension rolls. Sec. 13. All applications rejected by the pension commission shall be entered upon a permanent record to be known as a. Record of Rejected Applications for Con federate Pensions. with the reasons of such rejection. and the original applica- tion and all papers connected herewith shall be returned to the probate judge, who shall file them in his office, to be permanently preserved for future refer ence.
 
 of the record hereinbefore required shall l furnish each probate judge an abstract | of all pensioners in his county, which abstract or copy shall be by such judge recorded in a substantially bound and properly ruled book to be kept in his office as public record of pensions. All applications made to the probate judge after the receipt of the record re- ferred to shall be entered upon such
 record before being forwarded to the state auditor. In the event any applica- tion shall be rejected, he shall on re- ceipt of notice thereof so state on his record
 l Sec. 15. The state auditor shall prepare and furnish to the probate judges copies of blank applications, affidavts, and such other blanks he may deem necessary | to carry out the provisions of this act, | and they shall be by the probate judge | furnished free of cost to those desiring
 to make application for relief.
 | Sec. 16 All records, blanks and other
 sta ationery necessary for the use of ap-
 plioants shall be paid for by the state as
 other stationery.
 l Sec. r. That the sum of $500 is here
 by appropriated annually out of the pen
 sion fund for the use of the auditor TOT | the employment of clerical assistance
 and other necessary expense which may
 arise in carrying out the provisions of | this act.
 l Sec IS. All moneys appropriated in any
 manner for the relief of Confederate sol
 diers and sailors and their widows. shall be paid quarterly on the first day of Oc- tober, January April and July of said | fiscal year. The state auditor, at the end of each quarter, shall draw his warrant 1 in favor of all pensioners upon the treas
 urer payable out of the Confederate pen sion fund, for such amount as may be found due under the provisions Of this act for the preceding quarter, which war 1 rant. together with a blank receipt to
 be signed by the payee, upon the re- l cept of such warrant, shall be sent te the probate judge in the county in which | the pensloner resides. The judge of pro bate shall deliver such warrant to tht payee, having them to sign the receipt accompanying, which receipts the judge of probate shall retain in his custody | for 30 days, after which time he shal return to the auditor all receipts by him | for such pension warrants together with
 any warrants that he may have in hi' hands which he could not deliver, anc such warrants so returned shall be in
 dorsed "Cancelled'' on the face thereof
 with the date and reasons for such can
 cellation, and signed by the probate judg, making such indorsement. No other war rants shall be issued in the place of thos' cancelled In the event that the probate judge does not know that the person ap plying for the warrant is the dentica person named therein and entitled there to- he must require satisfa ctory proof O those facts before the delivery of thu
 warrant In the event the pensionel shall be physically unable to appear be fore the probate judge in person, in or der that he or she may receive the war l 1,e do Q