Chap. 749.—An ACT for the relicf of Frastus M. Ferrel, a wounded Confederate
soldier.

Approved March 3, 1898.

Whereas Erastus M. Ferrel, a maimed Confederate soldier of Company
K, forty-sixth regiment of Virginia infantry, was a true and gallant

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

Was wounded during the war and now incapacitated to perform
manual labor: therefore.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the county
court of Craig shall exainine into the condition of the above-named
rastus M. F errel, 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 from his wounds and aflliction is incapacitated for manual labor as
a result of said wounds; that he is needy and poor, and should receive
aid from Virginia, and if the county court of Craig county 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
rastus M. Ferrel on the pension list, and pay him annually the sum of
fifteen dollars, on and after the first day of April, eighteen hundred and
munety eight.

This act shall be in force from its passage.