Butts County GaArchives News.....Confederate Pensions February 1895
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Jackson Argus – Week of February 8, 1895
There seems to be a good deal of misunderstanding throughout the state 
concerning the workings of the new pension law.  Letters of inquiry received at 
the capitol indicate that some people imagine that under the provisions of this 
law every man who fought in the confederate army is to receive a pension.

This idea is, of course, erroneous.  The basis of pensions under the new law is 
extreme poverty and this must be proven.

The law does not go into effect until the 1st of May, and there has been 
appropriated $30,000, which means that there cannot be more than five hundred 
pensioners, and it is provided that each pension shall be $60.



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