Chap. 1223.—An ACT for the relief of Sarah J. Harris, the widow of a Con-
federate soldier, of Richmond county.

Approved March 7, 1900.

Whereas Meredith M. Mozinvo, a wounded Confederate soldier, of
Richmond county, who was a member of company K, ninth Virginia
cavalry, was a true and gallant soldier during the late war, and was
loyal to Virginia; and

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Whereas he died and left a widow, who has since married a man named
Saunders and a second time a man named Ilarris, and is by reason of age
in needy circumstances and almost entirely blind—

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the county
court of Richmond county shall examine into the condition of Sarah
Jane Harris, the widow of a Confederate soldier, and if it be that her
former husband, Meredith M. Mozingo, was true and loyal to Virginia
through the war, and that she, Sarah. Jane Harris, his widow, is old
and almost blind and incapacitated for manual labor, and that she is
needy and poor, and should receive aid from Virginia, and if the county
court of Richmond county should send a certificate of the facts to the
auditor of public accounts of Virgimia, then the auditor of puble
accounts is directed to place the name of Sarah Jane Harris 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.