Chap. 56.—An ACT to appropriate a sum of money not to exceed $5,000.00
per year for the 2 years 1914 and 1915 for the relief of needy confederate
women of Virginia, who are not upon the State pension rolls, and who
are not inmates of any confederate, independent or church homes or
charitable institutions. The relief to such needy confederate women
to be effected by the auditor of public accounts of Virginia issuing his
warrants upon the State treasury to each beneficiary under thig act,
such beneficiaries to be ascertained and determined by proofs satisfac-
tory to said auditor furnished by the organization of women known as

the Virginia Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
(H. B. 229.)

Approved March 10, 1914.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
a sum of money not to exceed ten thousand dollars is hereby ap-
propriated to be paid out of the State treasury out of moneys not
otherwise appropriated, and not to be paid out in excess of five
thousand dollars during the year nineteen hundred and fourteen,
and not to exceed five thousand dollars during the year nineteen
hundred and fifteen, said payments to be made by the State auditor,
by his warrants drawn upon the State treasury, for the relief of
needy confederate women who are not upon the State pension rolls.
und who are not inmates of any confederate, independent or church
homes or charitable institutions.

2. The State auditor is hereby authorized to pay out the said
ten thousand dollars, to-wit: Five thousand dollars during the
year nineteen hundred and fourteen, and five thousand dollars dur-
ing the year nineteen hundred and fifteen to such needy confederate
women as aforesaid described to each beneficiary under this act by
his separate warrant upon the State treasury, such beneficiaries to
be ascertained and determined by the relief committee of the or-
ganization of Virginia women known as the Virginia division of
the united daughters of the confederacy, who shall certify to the
auditor of public accounts, on blanks to be furnished by him, the
names of such beneficiary and the amounts payable to each bene-
ficiary, setting forth the name, address and condition or need of
each of said beneficiaries, said certificates to be approved by the
president of the Virginia division of the united daughters of the
confederacy, and when such certificate is received by the auditor
it shall be his duty to draw his warrant upon the treasurer of Vir-
ginia, payable to such beneficiary, for the amount mentioned in such
certificate and charge the same to the fund provided for in this act;
provided, that only confederate women who are residents of Vir-
ginia can be beneficiaries under this act, subject to its limitations
and requirements, and that no beneficiary hereunder shall receive
more than fifty dollars ($50.00) in any one year.

3. An emergency existing in the needs of the proposed bene-
ficiaries, this act shall be in force from its passage.