Chap. 1228.—An ACT for the relief of Jesse Burton, an old Confederate
soldier, of Lee county.

Approved March 7, 1900.

Whereas Jesse Burton, an old Confederate soldier of company G,
sixty-fourth Virginia regiment, was a true and well tried soldier from
the heginnine of the war between the states to the end, and has ever
since been loyal to the state of Virginia, now being aftlicted and very
old, and having no land or property by which to obtain a support, and is
not drawing anything either from the county or state, has become so
infirm that he cannot support himself; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That when said
Jesse Burton, an old Confederate soldier of the county of Lee, state
of Virginia, do appear befor the county court of said county and there
make aflidavit to the foregoing facts that the clerk of said county shall
furnish the auditor of public accounts a certificate to that effect, and his
name shall be placed on the pension rolls of Confederate soldiers at a
rate of fifteen dollars per annum.

2. This act shall be in force on and after the first day of April, nine-
teen hundred.