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During the year 1885 there was expended in pensions, $1,777.50.
During the year 1886 there was expended in pensions, $7,653.80.
During the year 1887 there was expended in pensions, $9,368.83.
During the year 1888 there was expended in pensions, $32,647.76.
During the year 1889 there was expended in pensions, $34,486.38.
For the year 1890 there has been appropriated $35,000.
In the year 1885 there were fifty-eight pensioners, receiving pensions at the rate of $5.00 per month.
In the year 1886 there were one hundred pensioners at the same rate.
In the year 1887 the rate was increased to $8.00 per month, and the restriction that the pension must be necessary to support and maintenance was removed.
Under this law the number of pensions for the year 1887 increased to one hundred and sixty-seven, and by December, 1888, to three hundred and eighteen, which number had increased July I, 1889, when the law was again changed, to three hundred and eighty-four.
The present law grades the pensions according to the disability and restricts it to those who are in need and unable to earn a livelihood.
Under this law the pension roll has been reduced to two hundred and eighteen.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
D. Lang, Adjutant-General.
Sir—Replying to yours of the 17th inst., to the governor, 1 can only make a repetition of my former letter of May 19, 1890, to you on the same subject, to-wit:
1. The number of troops furnished the Confederate States, from Florida, was about fifteen thousand, comprising eleven regiments, and several independent corps of infantry, two regiments of cavalry, and six batteries of artillery.
There are no records of these organizations extant, except an abstract of the muster-rolls of the first eight regiments of infantry, and the two cavalry regiments, with the several independent companies, subsequently forming the other three regiments of infantry.
