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Record Group Number: 000350
Series/Collection Number: .S 678
Creator: Florida. Comptroller's Office.
Title, Dates: Confederate pension approved claims, 1895-1917.
Amount: 29.00 v.
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Organization/Arrangement: Chronological.
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Biographical/Historical:     The post of Comptroller was created in the 1838 Constitution and implemented with statehood in 1845. The Comptroller succeeded the Territorial Auditor of Public Accounts and assumed the duties as the state's chief fiscal officer. The Comptroller's Office examined, audited, and settled all accounts, claims, and demands against the state. It supervised banking institutions, sale of securities, and collection of revenue and taxes. The Comptroller wrote warrants for payment against the state treasury and compiled annual reports for the Governor and Legislature on state expenditures and trust funds.

    The duties of the Comptroller's Office were transferred to the Dept. of Banking and Finance in 1969 (Ch. 69-106, Laws), with the Comptroller serving as the head of the department. On January 7, 2003, the Office of Comptroller was combined with the Office of Treasurer to form a Chief Financial Officer position heading the newly formed Department of Financial Services. This consolidated the two offices and the departments of Banking and Finance and Insurance.
Summary:     This series contains lists of those persons whose Confederate pension claims were approved by the Comptroller from 1895 to 1917. Information contained in volumes 1-12 includes:  date of payment; warrant number issued; date quarter ended; number of months paid; rate per month; total amount paid; personal data on the pensioner, such as their pension number; name of the company, its captain, and regiment; date of the approval of the pension application; annual allowance; date the pension payments began; county of residence; and post office address.  Information in volumes 13-26 includes:  pension number; name of pensioner; rate per annum; post office address for the quarter; warrant number issued; date the warrant was issued; and total amount paid.

    The remaining volumes are indexes.  Volume 27 is a list of pensioners by county as of January 1917.  Volumes 28 and 29 list pensioners alphabetically by last name, with their pension numbers, for the years 1909 and 1913.
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Subject Access Fields: Military pensions.
Confederate pensions.
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