Chap. 1100.—An ACT for the relief of James A. Lawhorn, a disabled Confed-
erate soldier.

Approved March 7, 1900.

Whereas James A. Lawhorn, a disabled Confederate soldier, of the
county of Bedford, Virginia, was a true and gallant soldier during the
late war, and was loyal to Virginia; and

Whereas he was severely wounded in the leg in the battle near Har-
risonburg during the Jate war, and at the present time suffers from
such wound to an extent that he is incapacitated from manual labor as
much as if he had actually lost his leg, but under the general law
‘an only receive the sum of fifteen dollars per annum, which he now
receives; and

Whereas the said James IT. Lawhorn is poor and needy and so badly
afflicted as to be ineapacitated from manual labor much of his time on
account of said wound: therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the county
court of Bedford county shall examine into the condition of the above-
named James H. Lawhorn, and shall it be that he is afflicted and in-
capacitated as above mentioned, and that he is needy and poor and
should receive aid from Virginia; and if the county court of Bedford
county should send a certificate of the facts to the auditor of public
accounts of Virginia, that the auditor of public accounts be, and the
same is hereby, directed to place the name of suid James H. Lawhorn,
of Bedford county, upon the pension roll in the same class and to
reccive the same compensation as those who actually lost a Jeg or arm,
said increase to date from April seventeenth, nineteen hundred.

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