Chap. 242.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2, chapter 453, acts of assem-
bly 1901-2, approved April 2, 1902, entitled “an act to aid the citizens of Vir-
ginia who were disabled by wounds received during the war between the States,
while serving as soldiers, sailors, or marines of Virginia, and such as served
during the said war as soldiers, sailors, or marines of Virginia, who are now
disabled by disease contracted during the war, or by the infirmities of age, and
the widows of soldiers, sailors, or marines of Virginia who lost their lives in
said service, or whose death resulted from wounds received or disease contracted
in said service, and providing penalties for violating the provisions of this act.”

Approved March 15, 1904.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
two of an act entitled “an act to aid the citizens of Virginia who were
disabled by wounds received during the war between the States, while
serving as soldiers, sailors, or marines of Virginia, and such as served
during the said war as soldiers, sailors, or marines of Virginia, who are
now disabled by disease contracted during the war, or by infirmities of
age, and the widows of soldiers, sailors, or marines of Virginia, who
lost their lives in said service; or whose death resulted from wounds re-
ceived or disease contracted in said service, and providing penalties for
violating the provisions of this act,’ approved April second, nineteen
hundred and two, be amended so as to read as follows:

§ 2. This act shall apply to every native of Virgmia, and to the
widows of such as are dead, as hereinbefore classified, who entered from
this or any other State, in the militarv or naval service of the Confed-
erate States, and: who is, or shall be, at the date of his or her application,
for the benefits of this act, a citizen and actual resident of Virginia, as
hereinbefore provided. but no person holdine a national, State, or county
office which pays a salary of one hundred and fifty dollars per annum,
or whose income from any employment or source whatever is one hun-
dred and fifty dollars per annum, or who receives from any source what-
evcr money or other means of support, amounting in value to one hun-
dred and fifty dollars per annum, or who owns in his or her own right,
or where there is held in trust for his or her benefit, or where the wife
owns, or there is held in trust for her benefit, estate or property, either
real, personal, or mixed, in fee or for life, of the assessed value of five
hundred dollars, or who is in receipt of aid or a pension from any other
State, or from the United States, or from any other source, or who is an
inmate of any soldiers’ home, or other public institution, shall be entitled
lo the benefit of this act. But a soldier, sailor, or marine who lost an arm
or leg while in the service of the Confederate States shall have the amount
hereinbefore provided for him unless he or his wife has an estate of the
assessed value of one thousand dollars.

2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this section, as amended,
are hereby repealed.

3. There being an emergency for this act, it shall take effect from its
passage.