Chap. 767.—An ACT for relief of George W. Vaughn,
Approved March 3, 1898

Whereas George W. Vaughn, a disabled and wounded Confederate
soldier of twenty-ninth regiment of Virginia infantry, Wise’s brigade,
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:

Blindness—total in one eye and nearly blind in the other; his left leg
badly wounded in battle; loss of eye in battle near Petersburg in eigh-
teen hundred and sixty-four: therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the county
court of Halifax shall examine into the condition of the above-named
George W. Vaughn, 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 lost an eye in battle; that he
is needy and poor, and should receive aid from Virginia, and if the county
court of Halifax 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 George W. Vaughn on the pension list,
nd pay him annually the sum allowed soldiers who lost an eye in ser-
rice, on and after the first day of April, eighteen hundred and ninety-
ight.

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