Chap. 265.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 20 of an act approved
March 10, 1908, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 2, as
amended by an act of the general assembly approved March 15, 1904, and
sections 1, 2, 4, 7, 14, 15, 16, 18 and 20 of an act entitled an act to aid
the citizens of Virginia who were disabled by wounds received during the
war between the States while serving as soldiers, sailors, or marines of
Virginia, and such as served during said war as soldiers, sailors, or
marines of Virginia, who are now disabled by disease contracted during
the war or by the infirmities of age, and the widows of soldiers, sailors,
or marines of Virginia who lost their lives in said service, or whose
death resulted from wounds received or disease contracted in said ser-
vice, providing penalties for violating the provisions of this act, as
amended by previous acts and by subsequent acts and by the act ap-
proved March 10, 1906.

Approved March 16, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections one and
two, as amended by an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved
March fifteenth, nineteen hundred and four, and sections one, two, four,
seven, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, eighteen and twenty of an act entitled an
act to aid the citizens of Virginia who were disabled by wounds received
during the war between the States while serving as soldiers, sailors, or
marines of Virginia, and such as served during said war as soldiers,
sailors, or marines of Virginia who are now disabled by disease con-
tracted during the war, or by the infirmities of age, and the widows of
soldiers, sailors, or marines of Virginia who lost their lives in said ser-
viee, or whose death resulted from wounds received or disease contracted
in said service, providing penalties for violating the provisions of this
act, as amended by previous acts and by subsequent acts and by the act
approved March tenth, nineteen hundred and six, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

§20. Out of the amount appropriated for the fiscal year ending Feb-
ruary twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and eleven, and the fiscal year
ending February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and twelve, and out
of the amount that shall be appropriated for each and every year there-
after, the auditor of public accounts shall first pay in full the pensions
of all persons upon the pension rolls under and by virtue of the pension
act approved March fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, whose
names have not been stricken therefrom and whose applications have been
filed in his office and approved prior to August first in each and every
year; and, second, if there remain a sufficient amount, pay in full the
pensions of all persons upon the pension rolls, under and by virtue of
every pension act, general or special, passed by the general assembly of
Virginia subsequent to the said act of March fifth, eighteen hundred
and eighty-eight, whose applications have been approved and filed in his
office prior to August first in each and every year, whose names have not
been stricken from said rolls, and if there be not a sufficient amount to
pay them in full, then the said auditor shall distribute the residue of the
appropriation for that year, pro rata, among the said pensioners, whose
applications have been filed as aforesaid, under any pension act passed
subsequent to the said act of March fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-
eight.