Chap. 816.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize
the board of supervisors of the counties of Gloucester and Mathews to make
a special levy, to be known as the Confederate relief fund, approved March
2, 1898.

Approved March 6, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of the counties
of Gloucester and Mathews to make a special levy to be known as the
Confederate relief fund, approved March second, cighteen hundred and
ninety-eight, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 1. That it shall be Jawful, and authority is specially given to the
board of supervisors of the counties of Gloucester, Mathews, and Kine
and Queen, in the discretion of each of the said boards, to make an
annual levy when the other county levy is made on the real and persona
property in each county, not exceeding four cents on every one hun.
dred dollars’ worth of said property, to be collected and set apart and be
known as the Confederate relief fund, to be used and paid out as
hereinafter provided.
§ 2. The levy, when made, shall be collected by the county treasurer
as other county levies are collected, and the treasurer shall receive the
same compensation for collecting and paying out this levy as he re-
ceives for collecting and paying out other county levies, and shall make
a settlement with the board of supervisors when he settles for other
county levies in his hands.

§ 3. ‘The county court of each county shall, at the April term of said
court, appoint annually a committee of three discreet citizens in each
magisterial district in each county, before whom all applications shall
be made for relief under this act; and when applications are made, the
committee shall examine into all the facts surrounding each applicant
and make a report in writing to the court, stating all the facts in each
case: provided, if there is a camp of Confederate veterans in the county,
the camp may recommend to the court at the April term, the committee
of three in each magisterial district in the county, subject, of course, to
the approval of the court.

§ 4. The applications for relief must be filed and reports made by the
committees on or before the first day of June of each year, and the court
at the June term shall examine into.all the applications and reports and
decide on each one, whether aid should be given or not; if aid should
be given, how much to each. The court shall require the committee
to be in attendance when the applications and reports are heard, and
also the applicants, if possible for them to attend.

§ 5. 'The court shall cause to be certified to the board of supervisors
the approximate amount to be levied for as the annual levy (should the
board, in its discretion see fit to make the levy) for the Confederate
relief fund.

§ 6. Should the board of supervisors, in their discretion, make the
levy, it shall be certified to the county court, stating the amount levied
for the Confederate relief fund, and the county court at the October
term of the court distribute the said amount among the applicants,
giving to each such an amount as the facts and circumstances may re-
quire, in the discretion of the court, payable at such time and to whom
as the court mav see fit and right.

§ 7. The Confederate relief fund in the hands of the treasurer shall
be paid out by the treasurer only on an order of the county court of
said county, and these orders to be received by the board of super-
visors from the treasurer in his annual settlement as proper and legal
vouchers.

§ 8. The citizens appointed on the committees above provided for
shall not receive compensation for services rendered under this act, but
are requested to serve purcly from the respect they have for Confederate
soldiers and the widows of Confederate soldiers.

§ 9. The maimed cr disabled or afflicted or needy Confederate soldiers,
sailors, or marines who served in the Confederate army or navy during
the war and were honorably discharged therefrom, or the poor or needy
widows of Confederate soldicrs who died in Confederate service, or
the poor and needy widows of Confederate soldiers who were loyal to
Virginia during the war and have died since the war, and none others
shall receive the benefit of the Confederate relief fund provided for
in this act.
§ 10. The board of supervisors shall not hear or determine any appli-
cation for relief under this act, but all applications must be made as
provided in this act and no other way: provided, in case of extreme
necessity the county court may require’ the committee of the district
where the applicant resides to examine into the application and report,
and if the county court should be of the opinion that relief should be
given, then the court may give an order on the treasurer for the amount,
if there should be a surplus in his hands not otherwise appropriated
belonging to the Confederate relief fund.

§ 11. This act shall be in force from its passage.