Chap. 727.—An ACT for the rehef of Joshua G. Montgomery.
Approved March 3, 1898,

Whereas Joshua G. Montgomery, a disabled Confederate soldier of
Company C, twenty-ninth regiment of Virginia infantry, was a true and
gallant soldier during the late w ar; was loval to Virginia; and

Whereas he is now suffering from the following disability—to-wit:

From a gun-shot wound received in the left leg at the battle of Middle
Creek, Kentucky, on January tenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two:
therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the county
court of Carroll shall examine into the condition of the above-named
Joshua G. Montgomery, a Confederate soldier; and should it be that he
was true and loyal to Virginia through the war, and that he is now
alllicted and incapacitated for manual labor; that he is needy and poor,
and should receive aid from Virginia, and if the county court of Carroll
should send a certificate of the facts to the auditor of public accounts of
Virginia, then the auditor of public accounts is directed to place the
name of Joshua G. Montgomery on the pension list, and pay him an-
nually the sum of fifteen dollars, on and after the first day of April,
cizhteen hundred and ninety -eicht.

. This act shall be in force from its passage.