Chap. 490.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of an act entitled an act
to amend and re-enact an act approved February 28, 1918, entitled an act to
amend and re-enact an act approved March 21, 1916, relating to Confederate
pensions, approved March 14, 1924. [S B 209]

Approved March 25, 1926.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
six of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved
February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, entitled an
act to amend and re-enact an act approved March twenty-first, nine-
teen hundred and sixteen, relating to Confederate pensions, approved
March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 6. Application of act.—This act shall apply to every
citizen of Virginia, and to widows of such, and to the soldiers, sailors
and marines of other states composing the Confederate States, that
allow pensions to former citizens of Virginia who were in said service
who have been bona fide and continuous actual residents of Virginia
for two years next before the date of application for pension and whc
entered from this or any other State in the military or naval service of
the Confederate States, and who is or shall be at the date of his or her
application, for the benefits of this act, a citizen and actual resident
of Virginia, as hereinbefore provided, but no person holding a national
State, city or county office, which pays a salary or fees amounting tc
three hundred dollars per annum or whose income from any and al
sources whatever is three hundred dollars per annum, other thar
board and clothing given to such applicant, or who owns in his or het
own right, or where there is held in trust for his or her own benefit, o1
where the wife owns, or there is held in trust for her benefit, estate o:
property, either real, personal or mixed, in fee or for life, yielding ar
income of three hundred dollars per annum, or who Is in receipt of 2
pension from this State or any other State, or from the United States
or of necessary aid from any source or who is an inmate of a soldiers
home, shall be entitled to the benefits of this act.
Provided, that ex-Confederate soldiers, or widows of such who have
become, or who hereafter become residents of the city of Washington
District of Columbia, immediately following a residence in this State
of at least two years, shall also have the benefit of this act. Under the
provisions of this act, any person who actually accompanied a Con-
federate soldier in service and remained faithful and loyal as body-
servant to such soldier or who was detailed to and performed guard
duty for the Confederacy or who served as cook, hostler or teamster:s
or who worked on Confederate breastworks or who was detailed tc
bury the Confederate dead, or who worked in railroad shops or black-
smith shops, or in Confederate hospitals during the war between the
States, under the direction and for the Confederate government, shall
be entitled to receive an annual pension of $25.00, proof of service and
right to be enrolled to be prescribed by the auditor of public accounts.

An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its passage.