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Texas Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes - Article 6227. Mortuary Warrant

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Art. 6227. MORTUARY WARRANT.  Whenever any pensioner who has 
been regularly placed upon the pension rolls under the provisions 
of law relating thereto shall die, and proof thereof shall be made 
to the Comptroller within forty (40) days from the date of such 
death by the affidavit of the doctor who attended the pensioner 
during the last illness, or the undertaker who conducted the 
funeral, or made arrangements therefor, the Comptroller shall issue 
a mortuary warrant for an amount not exceeding Two Hundred Dollars 
($200), payable out of the Pension Fund, in favor of the heirs or 
legal representatives of the deceased pensioner, or in favor of the 
person or persons owning the accounts.  (Proof of the existence and 
justice of such accounts to be made to said Comptroller under oath 
and in such form as he may require for the purpose of paying the 
funeral expenses of the deceased pensioners.  In such cases where a 
warrant for the pension for the month during which the pensioner 
died has been issued, the same shall be returned to the Comptroller 
who shall mark the same "Cancelled" and file it;  or if the warrant 
has been cashed, then the Confederate Pension Fund shall be 
reimbursed with the amount for which the warrant was drawn before 
the mortuary warrant herein provided for shall issue.  Where such 
warrant for the pension has not been issued, the same shall not be 
issued, but the mortuary warrant herein provided for shall take 
place thereof.)

Acts 1923, 38th Leg., p. 26, ch. 16.  Amended by Acts 1929, 41st 
Leg., p. 330, ch. 153, Sec. 5;  Acts 1943, 48th Leg., p. 187, ch. 
108, Sec. 3;  Acts 1947, 50th Leg., p. 456, ch. 258, Sec. 1.

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