Chap. 1453.—An ACT for the relief of James R. Sullivan, a disabled Confed-
erate soldier.

Approved March 7, 1900.

Whereas James R. Sullivan, a disabled Confederate soldier, who was
a member of company F, seventeenth Virginia infantry, Confederate
states army, during the civil war, and was loval to Virginia; and

Whereas he is now suffering from a wound received in left hand at
the battle of Five Forks during the said war, and has since lost the
use of his right hand, by which he is incapacitated for manual labor,
except to a very limited extent; and

Whereas the said James R. Sullivan is now poor and needy; there-
fore,

1. 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 James R. Sullivan, a Confederate soldier; and
should it be that he was true and loval to Virginia through the war,
and that he is now afflicted, and incapacitated for manual labor, partly
through a 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 accounts of Virginia, then the auditor of public
iccounts be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of James
R. Sullivan, of Prince William county, on the pension roll, and pav him
the sum of fifteen dollars per annum ont of any money in the treasurv
not otherwise appropriated, said pension to date from the first day of
April. nineteen hundred. ,

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