Excerpt from Annual Report of the Auditor of the State of North Carolina, for the Fiscal Year Ending November 30, 1897 For the nine years during which this Act has been in force, there has been an aggregate expenditure, under its provisions, of The annual average expenditure has been The annual average number of pensioners has been and the average annual amount received by each pensioner has been This low average is a consequence of the numerical predominance of soldiers of the fourth class. And of widows. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.