Chap. 601.—An ACT for the relief of Mrs. E. 8. Howard, widow of a Confede-
rate soldier.

Approved March 8, 1896.

Whereas William D. Howard, post-office Concord depot, Campbell
ounty, Virginia, contracted a disease in the service of the Confede-
ate states in the late war between the states, of which disease he
ied on the twenty-eighth of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-five ;
n :

Whereas E. S. Howard, the widow of said William D. Howard, 18
. resident of Campbell county, and is in destitute circumstances
.nd in very bad health, does not own property of any value and has
10 income whatever: therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
\uditor of public accounts be directed to list the said E.S. Howard
yn the pension list as he would a widow who had lost her husband
n the service during the war, and the same payment be made to her
18 is made to other widows of Confederate soldiers: provided the
‘acts herein alleged be established before the county court of Camp-
061] county.

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