Chap. 1200.—An ACT for the relief of Mrs. Frances A. Hix, widow of a
Confederate soldier.

Approved March 7, 1900.

Whereas George F. Tix was a true and gallant soldier during the late
civil war, being a member of the Fayette artillery, in the company of
Captain William I. Clopton, in whose company he served throughout
the entire war; and

Whereas Mistress Frances A. Hix, widow of the said George F. Hix,
who died at the soldiers’ home on the twenty-first day of February,
eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, from a disease contracted during the
war, and that his said widow is now in destitute circumstances; ther efore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
corporation court of Roanoke city shall examine into the condition of
the above named Frances A. Hix, the widow of a Confederate soldier;

and if it be that he, George F. Hix, was true and loyal to Virginia

through the war, and that. she, Frances A. Hix, his widow, is old and
enfechled and incapacitated for manual labor, and that she is nee dy and
poor, and should receive aid from Virginia, and if the corporation court
of Roanoke should send a certificate of the facts to the auditor of public
accounts of Virginia, then the auditor of public accounts is directed to
place the name of Frances A. Hix on the pension list and pay her
annually the sum of fifteen dollars on and after the first day of April,
nineteen hundred.

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