Chap. 719.—An ACT for the relief of Irena D. Shelton, the widow of David Shel-
ton, a Confederate soldier,

Approved March 8, 1898.

Whereas David Shelton was a wounded and disabled Confederate sol-
dier of Company H, forty-eighth regiment of Virginia infantry; was a
true and gallant soldier during the late war; was loyal to Virginia; and

Whereas the said David Shelton was wounded in the right lung in
the battle of Chancellorsville, May third, eighteen hundred and sixty-
three, from which disability he drew a pension from the state up to the
time of his death, from a hemorrhage caused by the said wound, leaving
his widow, Irena D, Shelton, in destitute circumstances in her old age:
therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the county
court of Scott shall examine into the condition of the above-named
Irena D. Shelton, the widow of a Confederate soldier; and should it be
that he was true and loyal to Virginia through the war, and that she is
now afflicted and in destitute circumstances, and incapacitated for man-
ual labor; that she is needy and poor, and should receive aid from Vir-
ginia; and if the county court of Scott county should send a certificate
of the facts to the auditor of public accounts of Virginia, then the audi-
tor of public accounts is directed to place the name of Irena D. Shelton
on the pension list, and pay her annually the sum of fifteen dollars, on
and after the first day of April, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.

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