Chap. 724.—An ACT for relief of FE. J. Lock, widow of Wm. S. Lock.
Approved March 3, 1898.

Whereas William 8S. Lock, now deceased, was a Confederate soldier of
Company G, fifty «sixth regiment of Virginia; was a true and gallant sol-
dier during the late war; was loyal to Virginia; and

Whereas he received injuries in discharge of duty and from confine-
ment as a prisoner of war in a federal prison, and died from said inju-
ries ashort while after the war, and his widow, Js. J. Lock, is now des-
titute, old, and crippled: therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the county
court of Charlotte county shall examine into the condition of the above-
named facts in regard to William S. Lock, who was a Confederate sol-
dier; and should it be that he was true and loyal to Virginia through the
war, and that he is now dead, and died from injuries received in service,
and that BE. J. Lock is now his widow and is incapacitated for manual
labor ; that she is needy and poor, and should receive aid from Vir-
ginia, and if the county court of Charlotte 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 E. J. Lock on the pen-
sion list, and pay her annually the sum of fifteen dollars, on and after
the first day of April, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.