Chap. 1440.—An ACT for the relief of Mrs. Frances T. Carner, widow of a
Confederate soldier.

Approved March 7, 1900.

Whereas Joel H. Carner was a soldier in the late war; and

Whereas in pursuance to the statute pensioning wounded soldiers of
the Confederacy; the said Carner did draw during his life a pension
of fifteen dollars per year; and

Whereas the said Carner is now dead, leaving a widow, a resident of
the city of Roanoke and the state of Virginia, who is very old and in
destitute circumstances, with no income whatever, and needing the
pension of her husband to a greater extent than she did during his life-
time; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
hustings court of the city of Roanoke, Virginia, shall investigate the
facts, and should it be found that the said Francis T. Carner is a
widow of a Confederate soldier, true and loyal to the cause of the
Confederacy and the state of Virginia, and that she is entitled to aid
by the state, the said court shall certify to the auditor of public accounts
the facts, then the said auditor is directed to place the name of Mistress
Frances T. Carner on the pension list and pay her annually the sum of
fifteen dollars per year on and after the first day of April, nineteen
hundred.

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