Chap. 1300.—An ACT for the relief of Ann E. Hillsman, widow of William
H. Hillsman, a deceased Confederate soldier.

Approved March 7, 1900.

Whereas William H. Hillsman, of company 4s, eleventh Virginin
regiment, was a true and gallant Confederate soldier during the civil
war, and while so acting, after having been wounded at Gettysburg,
was captured and imprisoned at Point Lookout, where he contracted
a disease, from which he died soon after his release from said prison
in the summer of eighteen hundred and sixty-live; and

Whereas he left surviving him a widow, who has never since married,
and who is now in dependent circumstances; now, therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the county
court of Campbell county shall examine into the condition of Ann E.
Hillsman, widow of the said William H. Hillsman, and also as to
whether the said William H. Hillsman was a true and faithful Confede-
rate soldier, and died as the result of disease contracted in prison; and
if said court shall find the facts as stated above, it shall send a certificate
thereof to the auditor of public accounts of Virginia, and thereupon the
auditor of public accounts is directed to place the name of the said
Ann E. Hillsman 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.