An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
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Volume | 1934 |
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Law Number | 402 |
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Chap. 402.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of chapter 85 of the Acts
of the General 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 heretofore amended. [S B 100]
Approved March 30, 1934
1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
seven of chapter eighty-five of the Acts of the General 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 Confederate pensions, approved February twenty-eighth,
nineteen hundred and eighteen, as heretofore amended, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:
Section 7. That no applicant shall be allowed, nor shall any aid
be given or pension paid, in any case, to any soldier, sailor or marine,
or to the widow of any soldier, sailor or marine, under the provisions
of this act where it shall appear that any such soldier, sailor or marine
deserted his command or voluntarily abandoned his post of duty of the
said service during the said war, and who did not later return to the
Confederate states army or navy, or who took the oath of allegiance
to the United States government before the end of the war nor shall
any application be allowed nor any aid given nor any pension paid to
any widow of any soldier, sailor or marine who shall have been mar-
ried to any such soldier, sailor or marine after the thirty-first day of
December, nineteen hundred and twenty nor to any soldier, sailor or
marine who served only as a substitute for another; nor to the widow
of such substitute nor to any person who served only in the militia of
the State, or in home guard organizations; nor to any widow, if she
have a husband living at the time of filing her application for a pension
under this act, or who shall hereafter marry; nor to any such widow
who was, or has been divorced from any such soldier, sailor or marine,
being her husband; nor to any widow who voluntarily abandoned, and
without cause any such soldier, sailor or marine, being her husband,
and continued to live separately from him up to the date of his death;
provided that a widow of any Confederate soldier, who has married
again and been abandoned or deserted by her husband, who in no wise
contributes to her support, or any widow of a Confederate soldier
married on or after December thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-
nine, may receive a pension, provided by the law of this State, if she
be otherwise eligible to be placed on the pension roll; provided further
any Confederate widow who is seventy-five years of age or more other-
wise eligible shall be entitled to the benefits of this act.
2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its passage.