Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1902-03-12

uAcouc VI suppOIt cillcF Olrect or l0-
direct, the sum OF twenty five dollars
per annum."
Clauses : and 3 Of Act provide:
80. This act shall apply TO every
native of Virginia, aud 20 the widows
OF such as are dead, as hereinbefore
classified, who enlisted 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 bis or her application for the
benefit of this act, citizen and
actual resident of Virginia, herein
before provided; but no person hold
ing national, State, city or county
office, which pays in salary or fees
three hundred dollars per annum, or
whose income from any employment
or source whatever is three HUNDRED
dollars per annum, or who receives
from any source whatever money or
other means of support amounting to
In value three hundred dollars per
annum, or who owns in his, or her
own right, or where there is held in
trust for his or her benefit. or whose
wife owns, or there is held In trust
for her benefit, estate or property,
either real, personal or mixed, in fee
or for life, of the assessed value of
one thousand dollars. or who is in
receipt of aid or of a pension from
any other State, or from the United
States, or from any other source, or
who is an inmate of any soldiers
home, or other public Institution.
shall be entitled to the benefits of
this act.
SO. Before any person shall be
entitled to the benefits of this act, or
receive the aid hereby provided for,
he or she shall file in the clerks Office
of the Circuit Court of the county,
or in the Clerks office of the Corpo
ration or Hastings Court of the city
wherein he or she may reside, at leasi
twenty days before any regular term
of the said court, an application for
/ relief under this act, subscribed and
sworn to by such applicant before
some officer authorized by the laws
of Virginia to administer an oath.
supported and accompanied by the
atfldavits of at least two disinteresteu
and reputable witnesses residents OF
the city or county wherein the SAID
applicant resides, and 10 whom the
said applicant Is personally well
known, as to the character aud repu
tatlon of the SAID applicant for truth
and honesty, and as TO the nature OF
the disability; also, by the afiidavite
of at least two of the comrades III
arms of the applicant, or of the
deceased soldier, sailor or marine, n
two such be living, and, if not, then
one OF such comrades, If not be living,
and If no such cOmrade be living,
the residence aud address of whom
Is known TO the applicant, then, OF
one or more reputable persons, who
have personal knowledge of the
service of any such soldier, sailor or
marine, aud of the cause of disabilIt,
or death, as the case may be, if an,
such person or persons be living, the
residence aud address of whom IL
known 10 the applicant; and if there
be no such cOmrade or comrades,
person and persons living, the resi-
dence and address of whom is known
to the applicant, this fact must be
specifically set fourth In the apphca
uOn; also the certificate of some
reputable and practicing physician
as to the nature aud character of the
disability, and the cause thereof; aud
IN the case of widows application.
the certificate of the attending phy
stefan at the time Of the death Oh
her husband as to the cause of his
death, if such physician be living,
and the residence and address OF
whom is known to the applicant, and
If such physician be dead, or his
residence and address unknown IL
the applicant, this fact must alsu
specifically appear in the application;
also the certificate of some camp OF
Confederate veterans of the city or
county where In the applicant resides,
and if there be no such camp in SAID
city or county, then the certificate
of two ex Confederate soldiers wei
known and of good reputation resid-
ing In said city or county, that after
examination into the merits of the
application, the said camp, or tn.
said eXCOnfederate soldiers, are sat
listed as to the truth of the state
ments therein contained, and that the
applicant is entitled to relief undel
this act, and if there be no such
camp in the city or county where
the applicant resides, this fact must
also specifically appear IN the appIi
cation; and also the certificate of the
commissioner of the revenue of the
city or county wherein the applicant
resides showing with what real
personal or mixed estate or property
the applicant, or his wife, or his or
her trustees, or the trustee of the
applicants wife. is assessed, and the
assessed value thereof"