Chap. 10.—An ACT to appropriate certain sums of money from the public treas-
ury in aid of Confederate memorial associations having in charge cemeteries
containing the graves of Confederate soldiers.

Approved February 8, 1904.

Whereas, there are scattered through the State various cemeteries con-
taining the graves of Confederate soldiers; and whereas some of these
are owned by ladies’ memorial associations having no funds or means of
providing for their permanent care; and whereas it should be a matter
of State pride to preserve such spots from any risk of neglect in the
future; and whereas the women who for a generation have cared for these
graves now find that among the manifold cares pressing upon them, and
the more immediate needs calling forth the efforts of themselves and of
the younger generation, this responsibility has become a heavier one
than they are able to bear ; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the auditor
be instructed to pay annually for the years nineteen hundred and four
and nineteen hundred and five to the treasurers of the following Confed-
erate memorial associations the following sums of money, to be by their
respective associations expended in caring for the graves of the Confed-
erate soldiers buried in the cemeteries herein specified :

Blacksburg, Virginia, fifteen dollars; Harrisonburg, Virginia, twenty
dollars; Charlottesville, Virginia, fifty dollars; Mount Jackson, Vir-
ginia, twenty dollars; Manassas, Virginia, fifty dollars; Manassas Junc-
tion, Virginia, fifty dollars; Farmville, High Bridge, Virginia, twenty-
five dollars ; Pulaski, Virginia, twenty dollars; Culpeper, Virginia, twenty
dollars; Montgomery, White Sulphur, Virginia, fifteen dollars; Hugue-
not Springs, Virginia, fifteen dollars; Martinsville, Virginia, fifteen dol-
lars; Leesburg, Virginia, twenty dollars; Abingdon, Virginia, ten dol-
lars; Norfolk, Virginia, twenty dollars; Lynchburg, Virginia, one hun-
dred dollars; Hollywood, in Richmond, Virginia, five hundred dollars;
Oakwood, in Richmond, Virginia, five hundred dollars; Spotsylvania
Courthouse,. Virginia, twenty dollars; Danville, Virginia, twenty-five dol-
lars; Bristol, Virginia, twenty-five dollars; Portsmouth, twenty dollars ;
Suffolk, twenty dollars; Bedford City, twenty dollars; Staunton, fifty
dollars; Fredericksburg, twenty dollars; Petersburg, five hundred dol-
lars; Wytheville, twenty-five dollars; Appomattox, twenty dollars ; Court-
land, ten dollars; Franklin, ten dollars; Boydton, ten dollars; Warren
Memorial Association of Front Royal, twenty dollars.

2. Inasmuch as the Confederate memorial day will be observed dur-
ing the month of May, and in view of the emergency existing by reason
thereof, this act shall be in force from its passage.