Chap. 1040.—An ACT for the relief of Sarah A. Tabor, widow of a Confederate
soldier.

Approved March 7, 1900.

Whereas Henry J. Tabor, a true and gallant soldier in the Confed-
erate service in the late war between the states, a member of company
I, sixteenth regiment Virginia cavalry, while on a raid with his colonel
toward the Ohio river, was taken prisoner in eighteen hundred and sixty-
four, and was taken to Fort Delaware, and died while there in prison;
and

Whereas his widow, Mistress Sarah A. Tabor, of Tazewell county,
Virginia, had to work very hard to raise her family after his death,
is now sixty-four years of age, is not able to work, and is poor and
needy; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That if the
said Mistress Sarah A. Tabor shall produce to the auditor of public
accounts a certificate of the county court of Tazewell county to the
truth of the facts set forth above, said auditor of public accounts is
hereby authorized and directed to place the name of Mistress Sarah
A. Tabor upon the pension rolls and pay her the sum of thirty dollars
per annum.

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