Chap. 260.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of chapter 85 of the
acts of assembly of 1918, entitled “An act to amend and re-enact an act,
approved March 21, 1916, relating to Confederate pensions,’ approved
February 28, 1918, as amended. [S B 176]

Approved March 24, 1930

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
five of chapter eighty-five of the acts of assembly of nineteen hundred
and eighteen, entitled ““An act to amend and re-enact an act, approved
March twenty-first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, relating to Confed-
erate pensions,’ approved February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred
and eighteen, as amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

Section 5. This act shall apply to citizens of Virginia who were
Confederate soldiers, sailors or marines, and who entered from this
State or any other State in the military or naval service of the Con-
federate States, and to widows of such, and to Confederate soldiers,
sailors and marines, and widows of such other States composing the
Confederate States, that allow pensions to former citizens of Virginia,
who were in said service and who at the date of making applications
have been bona fide and continuous actual residents of Virginia for at
least one year next before date of such applications for pensions; but
no person holding a national, State, city or county office, which pays a
salary or fees exceeding one thousand dollars per annum, or whose in-
come from any and all sources whatever exceeding one thousand dollars
per annum, other than board and clothing given to such applicant or
who owns in his or her own right, or where is held in trust for his or
her own benefit, estate or property either real, personal, or mixed, in
fee or for life, yielding an income exceeding one thousand dollars
per annum, or who its in receipt of a pension from, this State or any
other state, 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 continuous years, shall also have the benefits of this
act. |

Provided, further, that ex-Confederate soldiers on the pension roll,
or who hereafter become pensioners, proven to have become totally
deaf by certificate of a reputable practicing physician and affidavits by
three reputable unrelated and disinterested citizens, who are fully ac-
quainted with the applicant, shall be paid the amount of pension allowed
by law. }

Under the provisions of this act, any person who actually accom-
panied a Confederate soldier in service and remained faithful and
loyal as body servant to such soldier, or who was detailed to and per-
formed guard duty for the Confederacy, or who served as cook, hostler
or teamster, or who worked on Confederate breastworks, or who was
detailed to bury the Confederate dead, or who worked in the railroad
shops or blacksmith shops, or in Confederate hospitals during the war
between the States, under the direction and for the Confederate gov-
ernment, shall be classed as servant and entitled to receive the pension
provided by law; proof of service and right to be enrolled to be pre-
scribed by the State comptroller.