CIVIL WAR PENSION APP. - W. A. McCALLUM, OKALOOSA CO., FL

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Application No.  23799
Special Claim for Pension
By
W. A. McCallum
c/o Purl G. Adams
Crestview
Home Guard Co.
Filed In Pension Dept.
6/19/31
Approved and Filed In Comptroller's Office
Chpt # 14807
Became A Law 6/15/31

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AN ACT GRANTING A PENSION TO W. A. MCCALLUM OF OKALOOSA COUNTY, FLORIDA.

WHEREAS, W. A. McCallum has been a citizen of the State of Florida for more than 
seventy (70) years, and is now eight-three years of age, and

WHEREAS, said W. A. McCallum served in the War between the States in the Confederate 
State' Service as a Home Guard in and for the State of Florida for more than one 
year in the years 1864 and 1865, in the County of Walton, State of Florida, and 

WHEREAS, the said W. A. McCallum was honorably discharged from said Home Guard 
Company, and

WHEREAS, the said W. A. McCallum served as Member of the House of Representatives 
of Florida, in the session of 1905, and

WHEREAS, the said W. A. McCallum has never heretofore felt his need for a pension 
as such Home Guard and has never applied for same to the Pension Board, but is now 
very infirm and in need of a pension for his support, and

WHEREAS, he cannot now, owing to the death of his comrades furnish proof sufficient 
for this service to effect a pension from the Pension Board of the State of Florida,
under the General pension Laws of said State, and

WHEREAS, during the whole life of said W. A. McCallum he has been a public servant 
when needed for the Confederate States and the State of Florida, therefore,

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

SECTION 1.  That the State Pension Board be and they are hereby directed to place 
the name of W. A. McCallum of Okaloosa County, Florida upon the Pension roll of this 
State to be paid in the same manner and at the same rate that other pensioners are 
paid.

SECTION 1a.  Provided that nothing in this act shall be construed to prohibit the 
right of the State Pension Board under the General Law of 1923 to remove the name 
of the pensioner from the Pension roll if after investigation such board shall find 
that the alleged soldier 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.  This act shall take effect upon its becoming a law.

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July 30th, 1931

Mr. W. A. McCallum,
c/o Hon. Purl G. Adams,
Crestview, Florida,

Mr. dear Mr. McCallum:

With reference to the Special Law granting you a pension, I am sorry to inform you 
but the law of 1923 makes it the duty of the Pension Board to strike special pensioners 
from the roll who have not submitted such proof of their service or who have 
deserted.

It will be necessary for you to submit proof in substantiation of your claim in you 
can and the Board will be glad to render such assistance in enabling you to do so 
as they can.

I am enclosing herewith copy of the law requiring this investigation.

Respectfully,

Secretary, Pension Board

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