Chap. 178.—An ACT pensioning matrons who served in Confederate hospitals
for a period of twelve months during the war between the States, and who
have not real estate to the value of $750, or an annual income of $150, and
if she be a married woman whose husband has not that quantity of real
estate, or that amount of income.

Approved March 11, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,-That any woman
who served as a matron in a Confederate hospital for a period of twelve
months during the war between the States, shall be allowed the sum of
forty dollars per annum. But if the said person has real estate to the
value of seven hundred and fifty dollars, or an income of one hundred
and fifty dollars per annum, or if' she be a married woman and her hus-
band has real estate of that value and an income of that amount, then
the said person shall not have the benefit of this act.

No person shall become nor continue a beneficiary under this act
who is already receiving a pension as the widow of a Confederate
soldier, or who shall hereafter secure a pension as such.

2. The said person shall make application for a pension before the
pension board; and when she shall have produced proof sufficient to
satisfy the said board that she comes within the requirements of the
foregoing act, then the said board shall allow her the said sum of forty
dollars, which shall be certified to the auditor of public accounts for
payment, endorsed by the chairman and clerk of said board.

3. That after the pension has once been allowed, the pensioner may
annually thereafter appear before the clerk of the county or corporation
court in which the said pensioner resides, or some other person qualified
to administer an oath, and make affidavit that she is still entitled to
a pension under the requirements of this act.

4, All payments made under this act shall come out of the regular
appropriated pension fund of this State.

5. As these persons have never before been pensioned, and in order
that they may get their pensions as soon as possible, an emergency
exists, and this act shall be in force from its passage.