Chap. 769.—An ACT for the relief of Mrs. Sallie M. Foster, widow of Samuel
Booker Foster, a Confederate soldier.

Approved March 3, 1898.

Whereas Mistress Sallie M. Foster, widow of Samuel Booker Foster, a
deceased Confederate soldier of Company F, Farmville guards, who was
a true and gallant soldier during the late war; was loyal to Virginia; and

Whereas the said Samuel Booker Foster served to within six months
of the close of the war, at which time his health failed and he received a
sick furlough, but never recovered from such sickness, but died from said
sickness within twelve months after the close of the war, leaving a widow,
Mistress Sallie M. Foster: therefore,
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the county
court of Prince Edward shall examine into the condition of the above-
named Mistress Sallie M. Foster, widow of Samuel Booker Foster, a Con-
federate 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 sickness as
above set forth, and that she is needy and poor, and should receive aid
from Virginia, and if the county court of Prince Kdward 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 Mistress
Sallie M. Foster 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 shal] be in force from its passage.