Chap. 346.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the First fection of an Act
Approved November Ist, 1870, Entitled an Act to Provide Artificial
Legs for Citizens of the Commonwealth who lost their Legs During the

late War.’
Approved Mareh 25, 1872.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the first section of an act approved November first, eighteen hun-
dred and seventy, entitled an act to provide artificial legs for
citizens of this commonwealth who lost their legs during the
late war, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the gov-
ernor, auditor of public accounts, and Dr. H. L. Thomas, of
the city of Richmond, who are hereby constituted a board for
the purpose, are directed to contract for and furnish to every
citizen of this commonwealth, who lost a leg in the late war,
an artificial leg to supply the place of the one so lost: provided,
that the applicant has heretofore furnished or can hereafter
furnish a certificate from the court of his county or corpora-
tion, showing that he is a citizen of this state, that he lost his
leg in the late war, and was a citizen of this state at the time
of the loss of said leg, or in a military corps of the state; and
provided further, that he has not received an artificial leg from
any other state, the United States or under the provisions of
an act entitled an act to provide artificial limbs for citizens of
this commonwealth, who lost their limbs in the late war, passed
January twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven: pro-
vided further, that where the applicant has been heretofore
furnished an artificial leg under the provisions of the said last
mentioned act, and said certificate shall further show that he
cannot use said artificial leg, or that it is unfit for use, and that
by reason of poverty he is not able to purchase another, then
said applicant shall be furnished another artificial leg, and where
such disabled soldier shall produce the certificate of the county
court of his county, reciting the facts as required as aforesaid,
and further, that such soldier was so disabled, as aforesaid, to
to such an extent that an artificial leg cannot be worn or used
by him, then it shall be the duty of the auditor of public
accounts, on the production of such last named certificate, to
pay such soldier an amount in money equivalent to the cost of
such leg, if the same could be worn by him: provided, that the
same sum shall be paid to those who prove in like manner that
they have lost arms during the war. Colored men who lost
legs as soldiers or employees in the late war shall be entitled
to the benefits of this act.

2. So much of the unexpended balance of the appropriation
of twenty thousand dollars, made by the act approved Novem-
ber first, eighteen hundred and seventy, entitled an act to pro-
vide artificial legs for citizens of this commonwealth who lost
their legs in the late war, as may be necessary for the purpose,
is hereby appropriated to defray the charges and expenses
attending the execution of the foregoing section, to be paid by
the treasurer, as the same may be required, out of any money
not otherwise appropriated, upon the order of the auditor,
countersigned by the governor.

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