Chap. 175.—An ACT providing for the funeral expenses of Confederate soldiers
or widows who are now, or hereafter may be, enrolled on the pension roll of
this Commonwealth. .

Approved March 11, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That upon the
certificate of the clerk of the circuit court of any county that upon
reliable information under oath of the death of any Confederate pen-
sioner now on the pension roll of this State, or of any such widow now
on the pension roll of this State, or whose name may hereafter be placed
on the pension roll of this State, it shall be the duty of the auditor of
public accounts, upon the certificate of such clerk to issue his warrant
‘for funeral expenses of deceased in favor of the duly qualified personal
representative of such pensioner payable from the amount of the pen-
sion due such pensioner for the year of his or her death, provided, the
amount shall not in any case exceed twenty-five dollars; provided that
in any case where any such pensioner may have received his or her
pension for the year of his or her death before his or her death occurs,
the personal representative of such pensioner may collect the said funeral
expenses from the next ensuing pension installment, which would have
been due said pensioner had he or she lived, and the auditor of public
accounts shall issue his warrant for the same, after proof as aforesaid,
payable to said personal representative at the time when the said next
ensuing pension installment would have been due, except that in such
case the amount so paid for funeral expenses shall not exceed the annual
pension to which said pensioner was entitled at the time of his death,
and in no case shall the said payment for funeral expenses exceed
twenty-five ($25) dollars.

2. That, owing to the frequent deaths of persons affected by this act
the same shall be deemed an emergency act and in force from its passage.