Chap. 730.—An ACT for the relief of Maria Farrar, widow of Wyatt Farrar, a
Confederate soldier.

Approved March 3, 1898.

Whereas Wyatt Farrar, a deceased Confederate soldier of Company I,
forty-fourth regiment of Virginia, was atrue and gallant soldier during
the late war; was loyal to Virginia; and

Whereas he was severely wounded in the battle of the Wilderness, from
which, after the close of the war, in Charlotte county, Virginia, he died,
leaving a widow, Maria Farrar, who is now old and destitute: therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the county
court of Charlotte shall examine into the condition cf the above facts
in regard to Wyatt Farrar, a Confederate soldier; and should it be that
he was true and loyal to Virginia through the war, and that he is now
dead, and that Maria Farrar is now his widow, and that she is incapaci-
tated for manual labor; that she is needy and poor, and should receive
aid from Virginia, 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 Maria
Farrar on the pension 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.