CHAP. 536.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of “an act
to give aid to soldiers, sailors and marines of Virginia maimed
or disabled in the war between the states, and to the widows of
Virginia soldiers, sailors and marines who lost their lives in said
war in the military service,’’ approved March 5, 1888.

Approved March 1, 1892.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That section eight of an act approved March five, eighteen
hundred and eighty-eight, entitled “an act to give aid to
soldiers, sailors and marines of Virginia maimed or dis-
abled in the war between the states, and to the widows of
Virginia soldiers, sailors and marines who lost their lives
in said war in the military service,” be, and the same
hereby is, amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows,
to-wit:

§ 8. After an application has been once so passed, ap-
proved and allowed it shall only be necessary for the appli-
cant annually thereafter to file with the auditor of public
accounts a certificate from the clerk of the court by which
(or by the judge thereof) the original application was ap-
proved, setting forth that the applicant is the identical
person named in the original application, and that he or
she is still alive, and if widow of a deceased soldier, sailor
or marine is still unmarried and a resident of this state,
and that the applicant has made oath before him that
the applicant does not own in his or her own right,
or in the right of his wife, property of the assessed
value of one thousand dollars, and does not hold a state,
county or federal office, the annual fees or salary from
which amount to three hundred dollars, and has not an
annual income from any source amounting to three hun-
dred dollars, and upon the receipt of such certificate of
such clerk the auditor of public accounts shall from time
to time annually draw his warrant upon the treasurer
in favor of such applicant for the amount he or she
is entitled under this act. Where the applicant is
unable to go to the court-house because of sickness, or
where the distance to the court-house is too great to walk
and the applicant is too poor to pay for transportation,
the said oaths may be taken before, and the said certificate
given by, a justice of the peace or notary public. The rea-
son why the oath is taken before the justice or notary in-
stead of before the clerk shall be stated in the certificate.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.