Chap. 438.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2800 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to the poor. [S B 270]

Approved March 26, 1930

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-eight hundred of the Code of Virginia be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 2800. On application by or in behalf of one who is unable
to maintain himself, or by or in behalf of the family of a person when
he is unable to maintain it, and the family is unable to maintain itself,
such person or family shall be provided for or assisted, if he or they
have a legal settlement in a county, town or city, by the overseer, or
other qualified poor-relief officer, of the district, county, town or city,
in which said pauper resides.. But a person shall not be deemed to
have a legal settlement in any county or such town or city until he has
resided therein one year of twelve consecutive months without relief
under provisions of law for the relief of the poor, or relief from any
charitable organization or other benevolent association which investi-
gates and keeps a record of facts relating to persons who receive or
apply for relief, or who is unable to maintain himself only through the
assistance of others as distinguished from earned maintenance, and
shall not be deemed to have such settlement in any town, county or
city, if he has migrated into this State within three years, unless at the
time of so migrating he was able to maintain himself.