Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1884 — PENSIONS. [ARTICLE]

PENSIONS.

Some Facts and Figures About the Pension Bureau. At the breaking out of the rebellion in 1881 the total number of persons on the pension rolls, including revolutionary pensioners, was 10,772, and the aggregate amount required to pay these pensioners was $1,034,600. In 1862 there were added 1.884 names, and notwithstanding this addition nt the close of that year there were but 8,159 names on the roll. This is explained by the fact that a large proportion of those on the pension lists prior to the rebellion took part in secession and were dropped from the pension rolls. The report for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1864, shows the effect of the war of the rebellion on the pension rolls, the payment for that year rising to $4,985,474. From 1864 to the present time there has teen a steady on the rolls; the total number, according to the last official report, being 303,658. The amount of monev paid to pensions in 1863 was $1,025,140, and in 1883 it was $60,431,973.