Chap. 758.—An ACT for the rehefm of Amon Updike, a disabled Confederate sol-
dier, of Bedtord county,

Approved March 3, 1898.

Whereas Amon Updike, a disabled Confederate soldier of twenty-
cighth regiment of Virginia infantry, was a true and gallant soldier during
the late w ar; was loy al to Virginia; ‘and

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

From a cancerous, mattering sore, caused from hard marching and ex-
posure, which brought on him a swelling of both of his legs from the
body down, which are now in a swollen condition, and resulted in said
sore, Which has eaten the flesh from the front and both sides of the
right shin and half way to the knee, thus rendering him unable to per-
form manual labor: therefore,

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the county
court of Bedford shall examine into the condition of the above named
Amon Updike, 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
in destitute circumstances and incapacitated for manual labor, as a re-
sult of service in war; that he is needy and poor,and should receive aid
from Virginia, and if county court of Bedford 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 Amon Up-

dike 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.
_ This act shall be in force from its passage.