Chap. 1420.—An ACT for the relief of John Barns, an old Confederate soldier.

Approved March 7, 1900.

Whereas John Barns, a citizen of Lee county, Virginia, who volun-
teered in the Confederate service at the beginning of the war between
the states, and continued through the entire war a faithful soldier,
and has ever remained true and faithful to the interest ot Virginia;
therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That John
Barns, an old Confederate soldier of company G, twenty-ninth Virginia,
who was a true and faithful soldier, and who served his company
through the entire war between the states, and has now become verv
old and infirm and blind, without any property by which to sustain
himself: provided, that when said Barns appears before the county court
of Lee county, state aforesaid, and make attidavit that the facts herein
set forth is true, the clerk of said court shall furnish the auditor of
public accounts with a certificate to that effect, and that said Barns’
name be placed on the pension rolls of the state at a rate of fifteen dol-
lars per annum, to take effect the first day of April, nineteen hundred.

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