Chap. 146.—An ACT to provide increased Confederate pensions. [11 B 419]
‘ Approved March 13, 1926.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That each
pensioner in the several classes on the pension roll, and hereafter
placed thereon as authorized by law, shall receive a flat increase of
ten dollars over the amount fixed by chapter one hundred and twenty-
two of the acts of assembly, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, as
provided in the appropriation bill of nineteen hundred and twenty-
six, and no Confederate soldier, sailor cr marine, shall be denied a
pension from the State of Virginia on account of his income, or on
account of the income of the wife of any such Confederate soldier,
sailor or marine, unless such income from all sources in any case shall
exceed the sum of four hundred dollars per year.

2. A widow of a soldier, sailor or marine who married prior to
January first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, may be placed upon
the pension roll, if entitled to be placed on said roll under the pro-
visions of chapter one hundred and eighty-eight of the acts of assem-
bly, approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and twenty-four.

3. The unexpended balance of the appropriation for the payment
of pensions on hand the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hun-
dred and twenty-six and on the thirty-first day of December of each
year thereafter, after deducting an amount sufficient in the judgment
of the auditor of public accounts to pay pensions of pensioners en-
rolled between January first and March first following and to pay
funeral expenses of pensioners enrolled who may die between those
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dates, shall be divided pro rata to the pensioners on the roll and added
to the next annual pension provided by law.

4. The provisions of this act shall not apply to any person who
actually accompanied a ‘soldier in the service and remained faithful
and loyal as the body servant of such soldier, or who served as cook,
hostler, or teamster, or who worked on breastworks under any command
of the army and thereby rendered service to the Confederacy.

5. A widow of any Confederate soldier who has married and been
abandoned or deserted by her husband, who in no wise contributed
to her support, may receive the pension provided by the law of this
State, if she be otherwise eligible to be placed on the pension roll.

6. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby re-
pealed.

7. That pensioners may receive as soon as possible the benefit
provided by this act, this act shall be in force from its passage.