Chap. 1204.—An ACT for the relief of Mattie H. Martin, widow of a Confed-
erate soldier. ;

Approved March 7, 1900.

Whereas T. T. Martin, of the county of Bedford, enlisted in company
F’, second Virginia cavalry, In Mav, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and
served in the Confederate army till desperately wounded in the right
arm, having the bones shattered by shot at the battle near Milford,
September, “eightee n hundred and sixty-four, and was never able to por.
form manual labor thereafter, and by reason of said wounds he became
a Victim of nervous prostration with subsequent paralysis and death, and
his widow, Mattie Hl. Martin, not having married since jis death and
being In penniless cire umstances; therefore,

Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the auditor
of public accounts be, and he is here by, authorized and directed to place
the name of Mattie H. Martin on the roll of widows of deceased Con-
federate soldiers: provided, she shall first establish her right to said
claim before the county court of Bedford county, which court shall
certify the same to the auditor of publie accounts, and he shall issue his
warrant annually for the sum of fifteen dollars for her benefit.

2. This act shall be in force on and after the first day of April, nine-
teen hundred.