1905 public laws – Ch. 358 Sec. 1
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CHAPTER 358 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 273, PUBLIC LAWS 1903, ENTITLED AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF CERTAIN CON- FEDERATE SOLDIERS, SAILORS AND WIDOWS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: _
That chapter two hundred and seventy-three of the Public Laws of one thousand nine hundred and three be amended by striking out all of line fourteen after the word viz. : and all of lines fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twentyone, twenty-two and twenty-three of said section, and the words thirty dollars in line twenty-four, and inserting in lieu thereof the following: First. To such ns have received a wound as renders them totally incompetent to perform manual labor in the ordinary vocations of life, sixty dollars. Second. To such as have lost a leg above the knee or an arm above the elbow, forty-five dollars. Third. To such as have lost a foot or a leg below the knee, or a hand or arm below the elbow, or have a leg or arm utterly useless by reason of a wound or permanent injury, thirty-five dollars. Fourth. To such as have lost an eye, and the widows and all other soldiers who are now three-fourths disabled from any cause to perform manual labor, twenty dollars.