Chap. 137.—An ACT to appropriate a sum of money, not to exceed $600.00,
for the relief of needy Confederate women of Virginia who are not
upon the State pension rolls, and who are not inmates of any Con-
federate, independent or church home or charitable institution. 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 this act, such beneficiary to be ascer-
tained and determined by proof satisfactory to and furnished by a
group of women known as the Virginia division of the United Daughters
of the Confederacy. (H. B. 142)

Approved March 18, 1915.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That a sum
of money not to exceed six hundred dollars is hereby appropriated te
be paid out of the State treasury out of moneys not otherwise appro-
priated, said payments to be made by the State auditor issuing his war-
rants drawn on the State treasury, for the relief of needy Confederate
women who are not upon the State pension rolls, and who are not in-
mates of any Confederate, independent, or church, home or charitable
mstitution. :

2. The auditor of public accounts is hereby authorized to pay out.
the said six hundred dollars to such needy Confederate women as de-
scribed above to each beneficiary under this act by his separate warrant
upon the State treasury, such beneficiary to be ascertained and determined
by the relief committee of the organization of Virginia women known
as the Virginia Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy,
who shall certify to the auditor of public accounts upon blanks to be
furnished by him, the names of such beneficiaries and the amounts pay-
able to each beneficiary, setting forth the name, address and condition
or need of said beneficiary, said certificate to be approved by the president
of the Virginia Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy,
and when said certificate 1s received by the auditor of public accounts,
it shall be the duty of the auditor to draw his warrant upon the treasurer
of Virginia payable to said beneficiary for the amount mentioned in said
certificate and charge the same to the fund provided in this act; pro-
vided, that only Confederate women who are residents of Virginia can
be beneficiaries under this act, subject to its limitations and require-
ments, and provided, further, that.no beneficiary herein shall receive more
than fifty dollars in any one year; and provided, further, that this act
shall not apply to any Confederate women who have received or may
receive any portion of the sum of five thousand dollars per year for
the two years nineteen hundred and fourteen and nineteen hundred and
fifteen, appropriated for the relief of needy confederate women of Virginia
by an act approvd March tenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen.

3. An emergency existing by reason of the needs of the proposed
beneficiaries this act shall be in force from its passage.