Chap. 1091.—An ACT for the relief of William H. Wood, a disabled Confed-
erate soldier.

Approved March 7, 1200.

Whereas William H. Wood, a disabled Confederate soldier, who was
a member of company A, forty-ninth Virginia infantry, Confederate
states army, during the civil war, and was loyal to Virginia: and

Whereas he is now suffering from a wound received in the leg at the
battle of Cold Harbor during the said war, and at the present time
suffers from such wound to the extent that he is incapacitated for manual
labor as much as though he had actually lost his leg, but under the
general law can only receive the sum of fifteen dollars per annum; and

Whereas the said William H. Wood is now poor and needy, and so
madly atllicted as to be utterly unable to do manual labor; therefore,

Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the county

court of Prince William county shall examine into the condition of the
above-named William H. Wood, a Confederate soldier, and should it he
that he was true and loyal to Virginia through the war, and that he ts
now afflicted and incapacitated for manual labor from wound received
while in the service of the state, that he is needy and poor, and should
receive aid from Virginia; and if the county court of Prince William
county should send a certificate of the facts to the auditor of public
aceounts of Virginia, then the auditor of public accounts be, and he is
hereby, directed to place the name of William IH. Wood, of Prince Wil-
liam county, on the pension roll, in the same class and to receive the
same Compensation as those who actually lost a leg or arm, said pension
to date from April first, nineteen hundred.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.