Chap. 606.—An ACT to allow a pension to Susan A. Rickman, of Halifax.

Approved March 8, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That Susan
A. Rickman, widow of Thomas V. Rickman, who lost his life in con-
sequence of diseases contracted during the war in military service of
the Confederate states, between the states, shall be entitled to aid
under an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March
fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, entitled an act to give aid
to soldiers, sailors, and marines of Virginia, maimed or disabled in
the war between the states, and to widows of Virginia soldiers,
sailors and marines who lost their lives in conseqence of said war in
the military service; but said Susan A. Rickman is to be listed and
paid as of the beginning of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and
ninety-three and ninety-four; provided that the facts herein alleged
shall be proven before the county court of Halifax county.

¢. This act shall be in force from its passage,