Chap. 746.—An ACT for relief of E. A. Gobble.

Approved March 3, 1898.

Whereas IX. A. Gobble, a wounded Confederate soldier of the forty-
eighth regiment of Virginia, was a true and gallant soldier during the
war; was loyal to Virginia; and

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

He was captured at Spotsylvania courthouse; and

Whereas while the said Gobble was confined in prison he contracted a
disease which rendered him unable to perform manual labor: therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the county
court of Lee shall examine into the condition of the above-named E. A.
Gobble, a Confederate soldier; and should it be that he was true and
loyal to Virginia through the war, and that he is now afflicted and inca-
pacitated for manual labor, by reason of disease contracted during the
war; that he is needy and poor, and should receive aid from Virginia;
andif the county court of Lee should send a certificate of the facts to the
auditor of public accounts of Virginia, then the auditor of public ac-
counts Is directed to place the name of E. A. Gobble on the pension list,
and pay him 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.