CHAP. 1430.—An ACT for the relief of George W. Collins, a Confederate
soldier.

Approved March 7, 1900.

Whereas George W. Collins was a true and gallant Confederate soldier
of company H, twenty-second regiment of North Carolina infantry, vol-
unteering at the very beginning of the war, and serving on the battle-
field of Virginia until just before the close of the war, being captured
at Burgess’ Hill, near Petersburg, in April, eighteen hundred and
sixty-five; and

Whereas the said Collins has resided in Virginia for twelve years
last past, and has been an honest and faithful citizen; and

Whereas the said Collins is seventy-four years of age, and has a wife
and seven children, and has no income except from his manual labor,
and all his effects are not worth over fifty dollars; and

Whereas said Collins was wounded in his left thigh and in his right
leg, in the seven days’ fight around Richmond, and suffered much from
exposure, and now in his old age is very much incapacitated to do man-
ual labor, and very much enfeebled from said wounds; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That upon
proof of the foregoing facts before the county court of Henry county,
and the certificate of the same to the auditor of public accounts, the
said auditor shall place the name of the said George W. Collins upon the
pension roll of the state and pay him annually the sum of fifteen dollars
on and after the first day of April, nineteen hundred.

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