Chap. 1155.—An ACT for the relief of Mrs. Ann Hopkins, widow of William
Hopkins, a deceased Confederate soldier.

Approved March 7, 1900.

Whereas Mistress Ann Hopkins is the widow of William Hopkins,
deceased, who was a Confederate soldier of company E, ninth Virginia
cavalry, who was a true and gallant soldier during the civil war, was loyal
to Virginia; and
Whereas the said Mistress Ann Hopkins is now old, destitute and
feeble in health; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the county
court of Louisa county shall examine into the condition of the above-
named Mistress Ann Hopkins, widow of William Hopkins, deceased, a
Confederate soldier, and should it be that he was true and loyal to Vir.
ginia through the war, and that he is now dead, and that his said widow
is now old, poor and in necdy circumstances, and incapacitated by
feebleness of health or otherwise for manual labor and should receive
aid from Virginia, and if the county court of Louisa county 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 Ann Hopkins on the pension list, and pay her annually the sum
of fifteen dollars on and after the first day of April, nineteen hundred.

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