Fulton County GaArchives News.....The Amount of Pension February 10, 1891 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Linda Blum-Barton http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00003.html#0000645 March 9, 2006, 10:26 pm The Weekly Constitution February 10, 1891 Paid By the State of Georgia to the Wounded and Crippled Heroes. This is what Georgia pays her crippled ex-confederates, under the law as it stands amended: For total loss of sight, $150. For total loss of sight of one eye, $30. For total loss of hearing, $30. For loss of all of a foot or loss of leg, $100. For loss of all of a hand or loss of arm, $100. For loss of both hands or both arms, $150. For loss of both feet or both legs, $150. For the loss of one hand or foot and one arm or leg by same person, $150. For permanent injuries from wound whereby a leg is rendered substantially and essentially useless, $50. For permanent injuries from wounds whereby an arm is rendered substantially and essentially useless, $50. For the loss of one finger or one toe. $5. For the loss of two fingers or two toes, $10. For the loss of three fingers or three toes, $15. For the loss of four fingers or four toes, $20. For the loss of four fingers and thumb or five toes, $25. For other permanent injury from wounds or disease contracted during the service, and while in line of duty as a soldier, whereby the person injured or diseased has been rendered practially incompetent to perform the ordinary manual vocations of life, $50. For permananent injuries from wounds whereby a hand or foot is rendered substantially and essentially uselss, $25. For wounds or disease which renders applicant totally disabled for labor or helpless, $100. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/fulton/newspapers/theamoun1174gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb