Chap. 332.—An ACT to create a retired list of Virginia volunteers and to
amend and re-enact section 1 of an act approved March 3, 1892, entitled
an act to place on the retired list members of Virginia volunteers who have
served ten years.

Approved February 16, 1901.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That there shall
be a retired list of officers, non-commissioned officers and privates of the
Virginia volunteers, and that section one of an act approved March third,
eightcen hundred and ninety-two, entitled an act to place on the retired
list members of Virginia volunteers who have served ten years, be, and
the same is, hereby amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 1. That any officer, non-commissioned oflicer or private in the Vir-
ginia volunteers who shall have served for at least ten years as an active
member in the Virginia volunteers, or ten years computing the period
served in the Virginia volunteers and any period in which he shall have
been in active service of the Confederate States or United States, may,
upon his own application through the regular military channels to the
commander-in-chief, be placed upon the retired list of Virginia volun-
teers, and may only be required to answer any summons in aid of the
civil authorities and to attend the annual inspection and muster of the
command to which he belonged before retirement: provided, that any
commissioned officer, non-commissioned oflicer or private who may have
honorably left the service of the Virginia volunteers, after having served
at least ten vears therein, may, upon his application in like manner, be
placed upon the retired list. In all cases officers shall be commissioned
in their respective rank as retired officers with commissions of the same
grade as when retired: non-commissioned officers shall receive warrants
as of the retired list with the rank held when retired: provided further,
however, that if at any time during the ten years service required by this
act such officers or non-commissioned oflicers shall have been in’ the
service of the Confederate States or of the United States, holding com-
missions or warrants of higher grade than those held by them at the time
of their entrance into the service of the Confederate States or the United
States, such oflicers shall he retired with commissions of ras highest grade
held by them while in the service of the ex-Confedera e States or the
United States; and such non-commissioned officers shall reeveive warrants
as of the retired list with the highest rank held by them when in the
service of the Confederate States or of the United States. All retired
officers, non-commissioned officers and privates retired shall be borne
upon the rolls of the respective commands to which thev belonged before
retirement or to which they were attached by orders of the commander-in-
chief as such. They shall be a part of said commands and shall so re-
main unless dismissed from the service by court-martial or discharge at
their own request.

All officers, non-commissioned officers and privates heretofore placed
on the retired list by virtue of the provisions of the act approved March
third, eighteen hundred and ninety-two shall be transferred to and borne
upon the retired list of Virginia volunteers hereby created.

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