this chapter, and each pensioner of the several classes shall be paid the amounts hereinafter set forth, to wit: Class A, eight dollars per month. Class C, No. 1, four dollars per month. Sec. 1068. Before any soldier or sailor shall receive any payment provided in this Act, he shall make an application, in writing, through the township representative, addressed to the County Pension Board, to be appointed as hereinafter directed for each county of the State, setting forth in detail the nature of the disabling wound, if any, the company and regiment or battalion in which he served, and the time and place of receiving the wound, and showing that neither he nor his wife is in receipt of the income as hereinafter specified, and showing, further, the time and place of residence within the State. by the applicant. Such application shall be verified by the oath of the applicant, made before any officer in the State authorized to administer oaths, and shall be accompanied by the affidavit of one or more credible witnesses, stating that they knew the applicant was a soldier or sailor, or the wife of such, as the case may be, and believe the allegations made in the application to be true: Provided, That said application shall show that the applicant is not drawing a pension in any other State. Sec. 1069. Such application shall be verified also by a certificate of the Auditor of the county in which the applicant resides, showing amount of tax return, and that his income does not exceed the amount stated, and that he is not possessed of sufficient property to produce such income; and it shall be the duty of the Auditor to furnish such certificates, if he shall so find the facts, without fee or charge. Sec. 1070. In each county of the State the said application shall be submitted to a Board composed of four ex-Confederate soldiers or sailors (to be chosen as hereinafter provided), who shall not be holders of or applicants for a pension, and a regular practicing physician to be selected by them, which said five persons shall constitute the County Pension Board. They shall meet on the third Monday in January of each year, and shall examine each applicant under rules and regulations prescribed by the State Board of Pensioners. After first being duly sworn fairly and impartially to discharge the duties of their office, and after said oaths are duly filed in the office of the Clerk of Court, the said County Pension Board shall proceed with the discharge of the duties imposed upon them, and shall certify their approval to the State Board of Pensions, giving in detail the reasons which influenced them to grant or oppose each application, accompanied by all the evidences upon which they made their decisions. Sec. 1071. Four members of said Board shall constitute the quorum. A majority of the members of the Board present may determine any matter presented to them, subject, however, to a right of review of the State Board. As soon as such County Board completes its list as above, giving the names of the pensioners, their residences and amounts per month to which they are entitled, they shall certify the same to the State Board of Pensioners, to be reviewed by them. The compensation of the members of said Board shall be two dollars per day for each day's service, not exceeding, however, five days' service in any one year. Sec. 1071a. That each County Pension Board of the respective counties in this State shall, at its first meeting in January, in each year, elect one of its members to the position of Pension Commissioner, whose duty it shall be to attend in the Auditor's office of his county every Saturday during the month of January in each year, for the purpose of meeting the pension applicants, and to arrange and fix up all pension papers in a condition to go before said Board, which said Board shall meet on the first Monday in February of each year, to pass upon said applications. Said Commissioner shall be, and is hereby authorized and required to administer oaths. When said applications have been approved by said Board, said Commissioner shall write up the lists of same. *Said Board shall meet again on the first Monday in [February] in each year, to sign said lists, and immediately forward same to the Comptroller-General. Said Pension Commissioner shall be allowed two dollars per *February written in brackets is an error in the Act, and should be first Monday in March. day as pay for his services, but shall not be paid for more than ten davs' service in one year. Sec. 1072. The State Board of Pensioners shall thereupon pass upon the names contained in said lists, and shall certify to the Clerks of Courts of the various counties the lists of the names and amounts approved by them, and said Clerks of Courts shall record the same in a book, and said roll so made up shall be designated "Approved Pension Rolls for 19—,” and such persons shall constitute the pensioners entitled to receive the aid herein provided for the current year. Sec. 1073. Every application approved by the County Board, with all papers upon which they act, shall be filed in the ComptrollerGeneral's office by the first day of February of each year, to be by him submitted to the State Board of Pensions for their review. In the examination of the application of each person for a pension, the said Board shall inquire particularly into all the facts set forth in the application, and shall have the right to examine such witnesses and to take such evidence as to determine the right of such applicant to pension; and for the purpose of this chapter the Chairman of each County Pension Board shall have the right to administer oaths. In making their report to the State Board of Pensions, they shall set forth, in concise and plain language, giving in detail (and separately) their findings upon each material allegation contained in the application. Sec. 1074. Each of the said County Boards shall keep a book in which they shall make a list of the applicants for pensions, setting forth the approval and disapproval, which book shall be filed in the office of the Clerk of Court of Common Pleas for each county; and the Clerk shall from said book certify to the Comptroller-General, on or before the first of February of each year, the number of pensioners who are still alive and entitled to the pension. Sec. 1075. The State Board of Pensions shall have the authority, and it shall be their duty, to revise the list of pension claims allowed by each County Board, and to confirm or reject any pension claim allowed by such Board, as they may deem proper and right upon the facts presented by the said Board, or upon such additional facts connected therewith as they may procure; but shall have no right in any case to grant a pension unless the same has been regularly approved by the County Board of Pensions. Sec. 1076. The County Board of Pensions shall be constituted as follows: On the first Saturday in August of each year the surviving soldiers and sailors of the State or the Confederate States in the late War Between the States, in each township, shall meet at a time and place therein designated by the Chairman of the County Board, by two weeks' public notice, and having organized by electing a Chairman and Secretary, shall elect by ballot an ex-Confederate soldier or sailor, not a holder of nor an applicant for a pension, as the representative of the veterans of said township. The representatives so elected shall meet at the County Courthouse on the first Monday of September following, and, having organized by electing a presiding officer and Secretary, shall elect from their own number four, who, having selected a competent physician and elected one of themselves as Chairman, shall constitute, together with such physician, the County Pension Board for one year, or until their successors are elected and qualified. In those townships where the veterans failed to select a representative as herein provided, the Chairman of the County Pension Board shall appoint some person otherwise qualified as representative until such election shall be had; and in those counties where the survivors failed to organize a County Board as herein provided, the State Board of Pensions may appoint four ex-Confederate soldiers or sailors otherwise qualified to organize and constitute said County Board. Sec. 1077. In case there shall be in any township no person qualified to act as representative, then the veterans may elect, or in case of their failure so to do, the Chairman of the County Pension Board may appoint, some properly qualified veteran residing elsewhere in said county. Sec. 1078. The Comptroller-General shall be Chairman of the State Board of Pensions, and he, with three ex-Confederate soldiers, not holders of nor applicants for pensions, to be selected by the United Confederate Veterans' Association at their annual meetings, together with a competent physician to be selected by them, shall constitute the said State Board of Pensions. That the Comptroller-General shall appoint a suitable person to serve as Clerk of State Board of Pensions; said Clerk to receive a salary of six hundred dollars per annum for his services. In case of failure to select by the said Veterans' Association, the three members, properly qualified, shall be appointed by the Governor. The term of office of the elected members of said Board shall be for one year, and until their successors are elected or appointed and have qualified. Sec. 1079. The compensation of the members of the County Pension Boards shall be two dollars per day, not to exceed five days, and the compensation of the State Board shall be four dollars per day, not to exceed five days, and the latter shall be allowed mileage at the rate of five cents per mile. Sec. 1080. In counties where the survivors fail or refuse to comply with the provisions hereof, the State Board shall make such regulations for the distribution of the fund for such counties as they deem best. Sec. 1081. It shall be the duty of the Comptroller-General to issue on the first Monday in April of each year, to the party entitled to receive a pension hereunder, his warrant for such sum as may be herein prescribed, so long as such name shall remain on the pension roll as above prescribed, or until informed of the death or removal from the State of such pensioner: Provided, That the Comptroller-General shall forward the amount due the pensioners of each county to the Clerk of Court of the several counties of the State, to be paid out by said Clerk of Court without additional compensation. Sec. 1082. It shall be the duty of the Comptroller-General to prepare and cause to be printed forms in blank on which such applications, certificates and affidavits may be conveniently made, and he shall cause the same to be distributed in the several counties of the State in such number and such manner as in his judgment may be necessary. Sec. 1083. Whenever the name of any person who has been declared entitled to receive a pension under the laws of this State shall have been omitted, by any accident, from the proper lists, it shall be the duty of the State Board of Pensions to allow, and the duty of the Comptroller-General to issue his warrant for, the amount of the pension to which such person would have been entitled; said amount to be paid out of the next regular appropriation for pensions, after the |