Chap. 148.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of an act entitled an act
to amend and re-enact an act approved February 28, 1918, entitled an act
to amend and re-enact an act approved March 21, 1916, relating to Con-
federate pensions, approved March 14, 1924, as amended by an act approved
March 25, 1926. [S B 86]

Approved March 10, 1928

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion six of an act entitled, an act to amend and re-enact an act
approved February twenty-eight, nineteen hundred and eighteen,
entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March
twenty-first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, relating to Confederate
pensions, approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and twenty-
four, as amended by an act approved March twenty-fifth, nineteen
hundred and twenty-six, be amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows:

Section 6. This act shall apply to every citizen of Virginia, and
to widows of such, and to the soldiers, sailors and marines of other
states composing the Confederate States, that allow pensions to
former citizens of Virginia who were in said service, who have been
bona fide and continuous actual residents of Virginia, for two years
next before the date of application for pension and who entered
from this or any other State in the military or naval service
of the Confederate States, and who 1s or shall be at the date of his
or her application, for the benefits of this act, a citizen and actual
resident of Virginia, as hereinbefore provided, but no person hold-
ing a national, State, city or county office, which pays a salary or
fees amounting to three hundred dollars per annum or whose in-
come from any other source except a pension from the United
States is three hundred dollars per annum, other than board and
clothing given to such applicant, or who owns in his or her own
right, or where there is held in trust for his or her own benefit, or
where the wife owns, or that is held in trust for her benefit, estate
or property, either real, personal or mixed, in fee or for life, yield-
ing an income of three hundred dollars per annum, or who is in
receipt of a pension from this State or any other State, or of neces-
sary aid from any source or who is an inmate of the soldiers’ home,
shall be entitled to the benefits of this act.

Provided, that ex-Confederate soldiers, or widows of such who
have become, or who hereafter become residents of the city of
Washington, District of Columbia, immediately following a resi-
dence in this State of at least two years, shall also have the benefit
of this act. Under the provisions of this act, any person who
actually accompanied a Confederate soldier in service and remain
faithful and loyal as body-servant to such soldier or who was de-
tailed to and performed guard duty for the Confederacy or who
served as cook, hostler‘or teamsters or who worked on Confeder-
ate breastworks or who was detailed to bury the Confederate dead,
or who worked in railroad shops or blacksmith shops, or in Con-
federate hospitals during the war between the States, under the
direction and for the Confederate government, shall be entitled to
receive an annual pension of twenty-five dollars, proof of service
and right to be enrolled to be prescribed by the auditor of public
accounts.