Chap. 51.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved November 20, 1902,
entitled an act to provide for the payment of pensions under pension act of
March 7, 1900, whose claims were not approved under provisions of act of
April 2, 1902, and filed in the office of the auditor of public accounts prior to
September 1, 1902.

Approved January 27, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the act ap-
proved November twentieth, nineteen hundred and two, entitled “an act
to provide for the payment of pensions under pension act of March
seventh, nineteen hundred, whose claims were not approved under pro-
visions of act of April second, nineteen hundred and two, and filed in the
office of the auditor of public accounts prior to September first, nineteen
hundred and two,” be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
Whereas, a large number of persons who were on the pension rolls
under the terms of the pension act of March seventh, nineteen hundred,
were unable to have their original applications examined by the pension
boards and judges of circuit, hustings, or corporation courts in time to
have their claims filed in the office of the auditor of public accounts prior
to the first day of September, nineteen hundred and two, and conse-
quently could not be paid their pension for the year nineteen hundred and
two; therefore,

$1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the audi-
tor of public accounts be, and he hereby is, directed to draw his warrant
upon the treasury in favor of each of said pensioners whose claims shall
have been approved and filed in his office prior to the first day of March,
nineteen hundred and three.

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