Chap. 1329.—An ACT for the relief of Eliza A. Tinder, a Confederate soldier's
' widow.

Approved March 7, 1900.

Whereas Eliza A. Tinder, of Spotsylvania county, Virginia, after the
death of her first husband, a Confederate soldier, who was killed in
battle at the Crater, married James R. Tinder, of Spotsylvania county,
Vieimia, a true and gallant Confederate soldier during the civil war;
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Whereas said James R. Tinder was loyal to Virginia during the war,
and died after the close of the war, leaving his widow, Eliza A. Tinder,
old and destitute; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
county court of Spotsylvania county shall examine into the above facts
in regard to Eliza A. Tinder, and should it be that her first husband
was a Confederate soldier, loval to Virginia during the civil war and
lost his life in battle: and that her second husband, James R. Tinder,
was a Confederate soldier, and should it be that he was true and loval
to Virginia through the war, and that he is now dead, and that Eliza
A. Tinder is now his widow and that she is incapacitated for manual
labor and is needy and poor and should receive aid from Virginia. and
if the county court of Spotsylvania 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 Eliza A.
Tinder 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.