Chap. 654.—An ACT for the relief of P. H. M. Bird, a Confederate veteran of
Bland county, Virginia.

Approved March 5, 1894. .

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That P. H.
M. Bird, a Confederate veteran of company F, forty-fifth regiment
of Williams’ brigade, who, it is alleged, while in the discharge of
his duties as such soldier, received a gunshot wound at the battle
of Cloyd’s farm, Pulaski county, Virginia, May ninth, eighteen hun-
dred and sixty-four, by which he lost an eye, and from which and
the effects of which, he is much incapacitated from manual labor,
be, and he hereby is, authorized to appear before the county court of
his county and present proof as to his said disability, and if the disa-
bility shall be proved to be either partial or total, the same shall be
certified by the court to the auditor of public accounts, and he shall
list the said Bird for a pension of fifteen or thirty dollars, as the
certificate shall be for partial or total disability: provided, however,
that the said Bird shall make oath as to the value of his estate or
income, provided for by the general pension act.

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