Chap. 84.—An ACT appropriating seventy thousand dollars to pay
the claims allowed disabled soldiers and marines under act ap-
proved February 25th, 1884.

Approved February 5, 1886.

. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the sum of seventy thousand dollars, or so much- thereof as
may be necessary, be and the same is hereby appropriated out
of the public treasury to pay the claims properly allowed upon
applications heretofore made under the act of assembly ap-
proved February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-
four, entitled an act to give aid to the citizens of Virginia
wounded and maimed during the late war, whilst serving as
soldiers or marines; and the auditor of public accounts is hereby
authorized to issue his warrants on the treasury to pay the par-
ties entitled thereto, as provided for in the aforesaid act: pro-
vided, that in any case where the application of any disabled
soldier has been approved’ by the auditor, and such disabled
soldier has died after the filing of the same, the amount that
would otherwise be paid to him under this act, shall be paid
to his widow, if living, and if not, to his infant children: pro-
vided further, that where it appears, from the application and
evidence filed under said act of twenty-fifth February, eighteen
hundred and eighty-four, that the applicant was wounded in
the leg, and the same resected, and is in a condition as helpless
and disabled as if he had actually lost his leg, the auditor of
public accounts is authorized to issue his warrant on the treasu-
rer to pay to any such applicant the sum of sixty dollars out
of the sum hereby appropriated.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.