Chap. 201.—An ACT to authorize the auditor of public accounts to pay to the
Ladies’ Memorial Association of Petersburg, Virginia, certain sums of money
appropriated by an act approved March 14, 1904, acts 1904, page 266, no
part of said appropriation having been paid.

Approved March 12, 1908.

Whereas, there are between twenty-five thousand and twenty-six thou-
sand graves of Confederate soldiers at and near the city of Petersburg,
whieh are cared for by the Ladies’ Memorial Association of Petersburg ;
and,

Whereas, by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact an act
entitled ‘an act to appropriate certain sums of money from the public
treasury in aid of Confederate memorial associations having in charge
cemeteries containing the graves of Confederate soldiers, approved Feb-
ruary eighth, nineteen hundred and four,’” as amended and re-enacted
by an act approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and four, the
general assembly of Virginia appropriated the sum of five hundred
dollars annually for the years nineteen hundred and four and nineteen
hundred and five for the Petersburg Confederate memorial association,
and no part of said appropriation having been paid, now, therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the auditor
of public accounts be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, out of
any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay to the
Ladies’ Memorial Association of Petersburg, Virginia, the sum of one
thousand dollars in full settlement of the said appropriation under the
act of March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and four.