CIVIL WAR SOLDIER'S PENSION APPLICATION - FELIX SMITH, HAMILTON CO., FL

File contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Joan Renfrow

USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE:  These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any 
format for profit or publication by any other organization or persons.  Persons 
or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent 
of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact 
the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has 
given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for 
free access.

Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm

*******************************************************************************

CONTRIBUTOR'S NOTE:
I have no relationship to anyone mentioned in the below file

*****************************

Application Number D24158

Chapter 18057 No. 351

AN ACT Granting a Pension to Felix Smith of Hamilton County, Florida.

WHEREAS, Felix Smith of Hamilton, Florida performed service for the Confederates 
and later on services for the people of his Country during the Spanish-American 
War and during the Civil War aided and protected the wives and children of the 
absent soldiers, and

WHEREAS, the long lapse of time and death of those who aided his and served with 
him has made it impossible to make the provisions required to entitle him to a 
pension under the General Pension Laws, and

WHEREAS, the said Felix Smith has been confined to a wheel chair for many years 
and is a charge upon the resources of his country: - NOW, THEREFORE,

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA:

SECTION 1. That the State Board of Pensions of the State of Florida be and it is 
hereby authorized and directed to place the name of Felix Smith of Hamilton 
County, Florida, upon the pension roll of the State of Florida to be paid a 
pension in the same manner and at the same rate as other pensioners of this 
State are paid under the pension laws of the State in reference to services in 
the Confederate Army.  Nothing in this Act shall be construed to prohibit or 
prejudice the right of the State Pension Board under the General Law to remove 
the name of the above named pensioner from the Pension Roll if after 
investigation, such Board shall find that the alleged pensioner upon whose 
service the pension is based, did not render service during the war between the 
States, such as would entitle him to receive a pension or that he deserted the 
service.

SECTION 2.  All laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect immediately upon its becoming a law.

Approved:  June 4th 1937