GEORGIA - HISTORY   CSA soldiers-widows census 1906

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CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS AND WIDOWS OF, CENSUS OF.
No. 450.

An act to require a census of the Confederate soldiers
and the widows of Confederate soldiers to be made of
these now residing in Georgia and to provide for
compensation therefor, and for other purposes.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the
State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the
authority of the same, that on and after the passage of
this act it shall be the duty of the Comptroller-
General in the preparation of the tax digest for 1906,
or as soon thereafter as possible, to add thereto the
proper headings for having made a census of the
Confederate soldiers now residing in Georgia, who so
resided on the first day of January, 1906, so as to
give the name, company and regiment in which the
soldier or dead husband of the widow served, also the
time and place of enlistment, and when and where
discharged.

Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority
aforesaid, that it shall be the duty of the receiver of
tax returns in each county, beginning in 1906, or as
soon thereafter as possible, and in connection with his
work of receiving the taxes, to take and enter upon his
tax digest the names of every ex-Confederate soldier,
and the widow of every ex-Confederate soldier, now
residing in their respective counties, for which he
shall be paid by his county five cents per name so
entered on his digest.

Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority
aforesaid, that it shall be the duty of the justices of
the peace of this state, for the year 1906, or as soon
thereafter as practicable, in making up their lists of
taxpayers for their respective districts to make and
furnish a separate list to the tax-receiver at the same
time he does the list of taxpayers, of each Confederate
soldier then residing in his militia district, giving
the name, company in which said ex-soldier enlisted,
and of the dead husband of such widows, stating when
they enlisted, and when and where they were discharged,
when said widow was married to such dead soldier
husband, and when he died, for which he shall receive
the same compensation to be paid by the county, as are
now provided by law for making list of taxpayers.

Approved August 22, 1905