It is understood that matters of groat public
concern xiffll bo touched on and expressions
given thereon at this meeting.
The senate baspassed the house bill and it on
ly now needs to be signed by the governor to be
come a law, providing for the pensioning of all
confodcrato soldiers and sailors of this state at
the time of their enlistment and now resident
here, who lost a leg or an arm in the service
of the confederacy, or who is noxv or may here-
I after otherwise be incapacitated for manual
I labor by reason of a wound received in said
I service. The amount of each pension is thirty
■ dollars per annum, and also applies to tlio
widows of soldiers killed who have remained
unmarried, and to the colored servants of sol
j dii-r- and sailors who are disabled in like man
ner, by reason of said service. Tin' laxv does
imt apply to persons owning over §SOO worth
xi inpt property, or to any person holding
. ’ any kind of office worth over §SOO.
At Brandon, wlien“|:he ca-e of L. M.
