Chap. 748.—An ACT for the relief of Mrs. E. J. Lock, widow of a Confederate
soldier.

Approved March 3, 1898.

Whereas Mistress E. J. Locke is the widow of William §. Locke, de-
ceased, who was a Confederate soldier of Company G, fifty-sixth reqi-
ment of Virginia infantry, who was a true and gallant soldier during the
late war; was loyal to Virginia; and

Whereas the said Mistress E. J. Locke is now destitute, old, and
crippled: therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the county
court of Charlotte shall examine into the condition of the above-named
Mistress E. J. Locke, widow of William S. Locke, 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 died from injuries received in service in
the war, and that she is now incapacitated 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 direc-
ted to place the name of Mistress I. J. Locke on the pension list, and
pay her annually the sum of fiftecn dollars, on and after the first day of
April, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.

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